Volume 37, Number 11 · June 28, 1990
A Question of Character
By Stephen Toulmin
Schrödinger: Life and Thought
by Walter Moore
Cambridge University Press, 513 pp., $39.50
The transformations in theoretical physics during the twentieth century have two main lines, each with a key term, 'relativity' and 'quantum theory.' Both sets of changes were responses to problems in the natural philosophy passed down from Isaac Newton to the scientists of the 1890s—the presuppositions underlying the body of theory we know, in retrospect, as 'classical' physics. But the two sets of changes took place in very different ways.
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