The 1895 English translation of twelve lectures given by the influential Austrian physicist Ernst Mach between 1864 and 1894.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; Translator's note; 1. The forms of liquids; 2. The fibres of corti; 3. On the causes of harmony; 4. The velocity of light; 5. Why has man two eyes?; 6. On symmetry; 7. On the fundamental concepts of electrostatics; 8. On the principle of the conservation of energy; 9. On the economical nature of physical inquiry; 10. On transformation and adaptation in scientific thought; 11. On the principle of comparison in physics; 12. In instruction in the classics and the mathematico-physical sciences; Index.