Giovanelli, Marco (2024) The practice of principles: Planck's vision of a relativistic general dynamics. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 78. pp. 305-360. ISSN 0003-9519
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Planck's pioneering contributions to special relativity have received less consideration than one might expect in the historiography and philosophy of physics. Although they are celebrated in isolation, they are mostly not understood as integral to an overarching project. This paper aims (a) to provide a historically accurate overview of Planck's contributions to the early history of relativity that is reasonably accessible to today's reader, (b) to demonstrate how these contributions can be presented against the background of Planck's 'Helmholtzian' vision of relativistic general dynamics based on the principle of relativity and principle of least action, and (c) to argue that Planck's general dynamics serves as an illuminating example of the use of "principles' in physics.
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| Keywords: | Max Planck; Special Relativity; Principle of Least Action; Unification in Physics; Thermodynamics | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Marco Giovanelli | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 17 Mar 2025 15:59 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2025 15:59 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 24901 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Archive for History of Exact Sciences | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00407-0... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1007/s00407-024-00326-4 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Date: | 2024 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 305-360 | ||||||
| Volume: | 78 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0003-9519 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24901 |
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