Popular scientific lectures
By: by Ernst Mach ... tr. by Thomas J. McCormack.
Edition: 2d ed., rev. and enl. ...
Publisher: The Open court publishing company; K. Paul, Trench, Truebner & co.
Published: 1897
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Physics.
Table of contents: title: The forms of liquids.; title: The fibres of Corti.; title: On the causes of harmony.; title: The velocity of light.; title: Why has man two eyes?; title: On symmetry.; title: On the fundamental concepts of electrostatics.; title: On the principle of the conservation of energy.; title: On the economical nature of physical inquiry.; title: On transformation and adaptation in scientific thought.; title: On the principle of comparison in physics.; title: On the part played by accident in invention and discovery.; title: On sensations of orientation.; title: On instruction in the classics and the mathematics-physical sciences.; title: Appendixes. I. A contribution to the history of acoustics. II. Remarks on the theory of spatial vision.