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        Kathryn M. Olesko
        
 
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
 - Foreword vii
 - Contents ix
 - Figures and Tables xi
 - Preface xiii
 - Note on Citations xvi
 - Abbreviations xvii
 - Introduction 1
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                            PART I. DISCIPLINE
 - CHAPTER ONE. Educational Reform and the Natural Sciences 21
 - CHAPTER TWO. Quantification in Physics Teaching and Research 61
 - CHAPTER THREE. Shaping a Pedagogical Physics 99
 - CHAPTER FOUR. Mechanics and the Besselian Experiment 128
 - CHAPTER FIVE. Successes and Realizations 172
 - CHAPTER SIX. Error Analysis and Measurement 205
 - CHAPTER SEVEN. Interpolation and Certainty 235
 - CHAPTER EIGHT. Error over Truth 266
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                            PART II. PRACTICE
 - CHAPTER NINE. The Workaday World of Physiklehrer 317
 - CHAPTER TEN. The Ethos of Exactitude 366
 - Epilogue 451
 - APPENDIX ONE. Provisional Statutes of the Seminar for Mathematics and Physics at the University of Konigsberg 461
 - APPENDIX TWO. Neumann’s Cycle of Lecture Courses 464
 - APPENDIX THREE. Directory of Identified Seminar Students 469
 - Glossary of German Terms 473
 - Index 477
 
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
 - Foreword vii
 - Contents ix
 - Figures and Tables xi
 - Preface xiii
 - Note on Citations xvi
 - Abbreviations xvii
 - Introduction 1
 - 
                            PART I. DISCIPLINE
 - CHAPTER ONE. Educational Reform and the Natural Sciences 21
 - CHAPTER TWO. Quantification in Physics Teaching and Research 61
 - CHAPTER THREE. Shaping a Pedagogical Physics 99
 - CHAPTER FOUR. Mechanics and the Besselian Experiment 128
 - CHAPTER FIVE. Successes and Realizations 172
 - CHAPTER SIX. Error Analysis and Measurement 205
 - CHAPTER SEVEN. Interpolation and Certainty 235
 - CHAPTER EIGHT. Error over Truth 266
 - 
                            PART II. PRACTICE
 - CHAPTER NINE. The Workaday World of Physiklehrer 317
 - CHAPTER TEN. The Ethos of Exactitude 366
 - Epilogue 451
 - APPENDIX ONE. Provisional Statutes of the Seminar for Mathematics and Physics at the University of Konigsberg 461
 - APPENDIX TWO. Neumann’s Cycle of Lecture Courses 464
 - APPENDIX THREE. Directory of Identified Seminar Students 469
 - Glossary of German Terms 473
 - Index 477