KLAUS HENTSCHEL
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199205660
- eISBN:
- 9780191709388
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199205660.003.0016
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
Immediate hardship in Germany contaminated communications between physicists at home and abroad. But their official or private reactions to emigrés were frequently clumsy and haughty, if not ...
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Immediate hardship in Germany contaminated communications between physicists at home and abroad. But their official or private reactions to emigrés were frequently clumsy and haughty, if not downright offensive. Their insensitivity and tendency to pass over the gruesome regime years as if nothing had happened or to claim ignorance — which was certainly doubtful in the case of project leaders (von Laue, Hahn) — irreparably damaged former friendships. Not having stayed to the bitter end, how could emigré physicists legitimately judge?Less
Immediate hardship in Germany contaminated communications between physicists at home and abroad. But their official or private reactions to emigrés were frequently clumsy and haughty, if not downright offensive. Their insensitivity and tendency to pass over the gruesome regime years as if nothing had happened or to claim ignorance — which was certainly doubtful in the case of project leaders (von Laue, Hahn) — irreparably damaged former friendships. Not having stayed to the bitter end, how could emigré physicists legitimately judge?
Hentschel Klaus
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198717874
- eISBN:
- 9780191787546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198717874.003.0011
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
This chapter considers a question first posed by Rudolf Arnheim and then by many psychologists and cognitive scientists, artists and art historians, sociologists and theoreticians of culture – namely ...
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This chapter considers a question first posed by Rudolf Arnheim and then by many psychologists and cognitive scientists, artists and art historians, sociologists and theoreticians of culture – namely exactly how does ‘visual thinking’ work and in what sense does it operate differently from normal thinking? Historically minded engineers such as Eugene P. Ferguson and Walter Visconti, the architect Tom F. Peters, as well as historians of technology such as Brooke Hindle have also provided plenty of case studies on visual thinking in the engineering realm. Out of the vast array of excellent examples from this terrain, this chapter discusses examples from Faraday’s electromagnetism, the geosciences, Haüy’s crystallography and modern suspension bridge construction.Less
This chapter considers a question first posed by Rudolf Arnheim and then by many psychologists and cognitive scientists, artists and art historians, sociologists and theoreticians of culture – namely exactly how does ‘visual thinking’ work and in what sense does it operate differently from normal thinking? Historically minded engineers such as Eugene P. Ferguson and Walter Visconti, the architect Tom F. Peters, as well as historians of technology such as Brooke Hindle have also provided plenty of case studies on visual thinking in the engineering realm. Out of the vast array of excellent examples from this terrain, this chapter discusses examples from Faraday’s electromagnetism, the geosciences, Haüy’s crystallography and modern suspension bridge construction.
