Physics and Literature : Concepts - Transfer - Aestheticization.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin/Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Literatur- und Naturwissenschaften Series
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Table of 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.