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Part III. History: Experimental philosophy, a case study |
11. ISOLATION OF A FIELD OF SCIENCE [pdf]
11.1. Orientation
11.2. Isolation
11.3. What is electricity?
11.4. The separation of chemistry and thermal physics
11.5. Opening up after isolation
12. SEARCHING FOR OBJECTIVITY [pdf]
12.1. Measurement
12.2. Fluid theories
12.3. The inverse-square law
12.4. Coulomb’s law
12.5. Mathematical fields
12.6. The discovery of the electric current
12.7. The Newtonian worldview
13.1. The steam age
13.2. Current and potential difference
13.3. Transformation and transport
13.4. Electric circuits
13.5. Practical philosophy
14. SEARCHING FOR UNIVERSAL LAWS [pdf]
14.1. Newtonianism and anti-Newtonianism
14.2. Dissolution of the isolation
14.3. The law of conservation of energy
14.4. Physical fields
14.5. The electromagnetic field
14.6. From ether theories to relativity
14.7. The method of analogy
15. THE HIDDEN STRUCTURE OF MATTER [pdf]15.1. The electrical fluid
15.2. The abc of atomic theory: Avogadro, Berzelius, Clausius and
15.3. Conduction in an electrolyte
15.4. The discovery of the electron
15.5. The interaction of matter and field
15.6. The electromagnetic worldview
16. PHILOSOPHY OF EXPERIMENT [pdf]
16.1. End of the mechanical worldview
16.2. Models and experiments
16.3. Experiments and natural laws
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