Frontiers of Physics: 1900–1911: Selected Essays by MILLER

By MILLER

P. W. Bridgman and the specific concept oj Relativity Ey W. Bridgman wrote A S,phi,ticati< him" (1962) for the reader "who feels the necessity to stand again a bit for a serious scrutiny of what he has rather obtained" (SP, p. 3). * This used to be his own trademark as physicist and philoso­ pher and it really is current all over the place in Bridgman's summary of specific relativity thought. The reissue of Sophisticate's Primer is especially wel­ come for it indicates a quest for readability in foundations within the sort of Ernst Mach and Henri Poincare, in whose philo- • N.B. Papers and books are the following pointed out as follows. Bridgman (1927) refers to Bridgman's ebook The common sense of recent Physics within the bibliography. Cross-references to Sophisticate's Primer are indicated with the code (SP, p. "'). Bridgman's extant manuscripts are on deposit on the Harvard collage files, and the following mentioned by means of date, for instance (MS 2 August 1959, p .... ). many of the manuscripts have been written over a interval of days, with sequential paging, with the particular dates indicated. complete citations are given within the bibliography. i'm thankful to the Harvard collage files for permission to cite from those fabrics, and to Bridgman's daughter, Mrs. Jane Koopman, for allowing me to cite from the draft manuscripts of Sophisticate's Primer, in an effort to be deposited within the Harvard files. Reprinted from P. W. Bridgman. Sophisticate's Primer of Relativity, moment variation. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan college Press, 1983.

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