History and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The pamphlet of fifty-eight pages entitled Die Geschichte und die Wurzel des Satzes von der Erhaltung der Arbeit. Vortrag gehalten in der k. böhm. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften am 15. Nov. 1871 von E. Mach, Professor der Physik an der Universität Prag was published at Prague in 1872, and a second - unaltered - edition at Leipzig (Barth) in 1909. To this second edition (pp. iv, 60) were added a short preface and a few notes by Mach himself. This preface is translated below.

Quite apart from the interest which must attach to the first sketch of a way of regarding science which has become of such great importance to students both of science and of the theory of knowledge, this pamphlet is quite essential to the thorough understanding of Mach's work. In the first place, it contains a reprint of Mach's article (1868) on the definition of mass, which is, perhaps, his most important contribution to mechanics; and, in the second place, the discussion of the logical root of the principle of the conservation of energy is fuller than that in any of his later publications.

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