VV(13) - Foppl

[Dave Monroe]

And keep in mind here, "mechanics," "epistemological,"
"planetarium" ...

--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br/www-mem/95sup1/31cti.html
> 
> Gardner also refers to the reading of a book written
> by an obscure physics 
> teacher, August Foppl, that Einstein devoured in
> 1890 and it seems to have 
> helped him to understand that mechanics is a part of
> the physics, and that 
> the investigation of those topics embraces
> philosophical and epistemological 
> subjects that cannot be ignored. Foppl wrote that
> book so that the students 
> without a formal training could understand some
> scientific principles of 
> physics, in which Einstein could identify some of
> his more persistent 
> concerns.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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