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A.J. Kox (Ed.) The Scientific Correspondence of H.A. Lorentz Volume I Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences

Unique insight into the minds of the 19th–20th century’s most important physicists Preface contains a biography of Lorentz, with details which cannot be found elsewhere 2009, XXIV, 780 p. 35 illus. Contains previously unpublished letters from Einstein, Planck and others This volume presents a selection of 434 letters from and to the Dutch physicist and Nobel Printed book Prize winner Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928), covering the period from 1883 until a few Hardcover months before his death in February 1928. The sheer size of the available correspondence 229,00 € | £201.00 | $279.00 (approximately 6000 letters from and to Lorentz) preclude a full publication. The letters [1] 245,03 € (D) | 251,90 € (A) | CHF included in this volume have been selected according to various criteria, the most important of 270,00 which is scientific importance. A second criterion has been the availability of letters both from Softcover and to Lorentz, so that the reader can follow the exchange between Lorentz and his 229,00 € | £201.00 | $279.00 correspondent. Within such correspondences a few unimportant items, dealing with routine [1]245,03 € (D) | 251,90 € (A) | CHF administrative or organizational matters, have been omitted. An exception to the scientific 270,00 criterion is the exchange of letters between Lorentz and Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Woldemar Voigt, and Wilhelm Wien during World War I: these letters have been included because they eBook shed important light on the disruption of the scientific relations during the war and on the 192,59 € | £160.50 | $219.00 political views of these correspondents as well as of Lorentz. similar reasons the letters [2]192,59 € (D) | 192,59 € (A) | CHF exchanged with Einstein and Planck on post-war political issues have been included. 216,00 Biographical sketch Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was born on July 18, 1853 in the Dutch town of Available from your library or Arnhem. He was the son of a relatively well-to-do owner of a nursery. springer.com/shop MyCopy [3] Printed eBook for just € | $ 24.99 springer.com/mycopy

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