Popular Scientific Lectures, Ernst Mach
Popular Scientific Lectures, Ernst Mach
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Popular Scientific Lectures

Author: Ernst Mach

Narrator: Edward Herrmann (Synthesized), Synthesized voice

Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/06/2022

Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Physics


Synopsis

This recording has been digitally produced by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration. 
Ernst Mach was a Moravian-born Austrian physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the physics of shock waves. The ratio of one's speed to that of sound is named the Mach number in his honor. As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism and American pragmatism. Through his criticism of Newton's theories of space and time, he foreshadowed Einstein's theory of relativity.Included in this compilation are a set of scientific lectures that were intended to popularize science in the late 19th and early 20th century. Now in the twenty-first century, and scientific literacy falling to an all-time low, a call to popularize science could not be more needed.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luigi on January 01, 2019

This wasn't an easy read, but I was really interested to read it after reading all about the group of scientists and philosophers of Vienna. Mach had great wit and intellect and I can imagine what their discussions must have been like. The great thing is that they weren't just discussions but they h......more

Goodreads review by Rajat on May 02, 2023

A charming and witty collection of lectures on various scientific topics, including the anatomy of ears, philosophy of science, and the physics of music, optics, motion, and much more. The writing is accessible to a reader with limited background knowledge, but sufficiently detailed so as to teach s......more