Physics and Literature : Concepts - Transfer - Aestheticization.

By: Heydenreich, AuraContributor(s): Mecke, KlausMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Literatur- und Naturwissenschaften SeriesPublisher: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2021Copyright date: �2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (424 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783110481112Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Physics and LiteratureDDC classification: 809.9336 Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Epistemic Functions of Narration and Metaphor in Science -- Insight by Metaphor - The Epistemic Role of Metaphor in Science -- Epistemic Narrativity in Albert Einstein's Treatise on Special Relativity -- Albert Einstein's "Physics and Reality" and "The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" -- Physics and Fiction -- Part II: Concepts: Formation and Transfer -- Concept Formation in Physics from a Linguist's Perspective -- Everything in Context -- Induction after Electromagnetism -- The Paradoxical Interplay of Exactitude and Indefiniteness -- The Horizon of the Horizon -- Interference -- Part III: Aestheticization and Literarization of Physics -- Literary Epistemology -- The "Poetic Element" of Science -- Possible Worlds -- The Physics of Metaphysics -- Establishing Evidence through a Shift in Viewpoint -- Narrating Science - Physics for Non-physicists -- The Making of A Mystic Dream of 4 -- Attachment -- Author and Editor Directory -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Epistemic Functions of Narration and Metaphor in Science -- Insight by Metaphor - The Epistemic Role of Metaphor in Science -- Epistemic Narrativity in Albert Einstein's Treatise on Special Relativity -- Albert Einstein's "Physics and Reality" and "The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" -- Physics and Fiction -- Part II: Concepts: Formation and Transfer -- Concept Formation in Physics from a Linguist's Perspective -- Everything in Context -- Induction after Electromagnetism -- The Paradoxical Interplay of Exactitude and Indefiniteness -- The Horizon of the Horizon -- Interference -- Part III: Aestheticization and Literarization of Physics -- Literary Epistemology -- The "Poetic Element" of Science -- Possible Worlds -- The Physics of Metaphysics -- Establishing Evidence through a Shift in Viewpoint -- Narrating Science - Physics for Non-physicists -- The Making of A Mystic Dream of 4 -- Attachment -- Author and Editor Directory -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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