Roland FranikAtomistik in der Geschichte

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[...] [Der Verfasser] schildert in seinem Werk [...] ein nicht nur für Naturwissenschaftler interessantes, dramatisches und emotional packendes Geschehen. Lehrpersonen, für die die Ideengeschichte zu vermittelnder Theorien und Begriffe ja von besonderer Bedeutung ist, ist dieses Werk nur zu empfehlen. Ein ausführliches Sachwort- und ein 385 Positionen umfassendes Literaturverzeichnis machen es außerdem zu einem ergiebigen Nachschlagewerk.

It is an extremely interesting but also dramatic and emotionaIly fascinating happening from which to us was reported, but which still today is continued in research facilities and universities as well as in working rooms, workshops and the free nature. In the course of the evolution men were offended, spittedand denunciated, deceived, arrested, persecuted, nay even tortured and burned. Later researchers attained world-wide glory.

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This book describes the development of our knowledge of atoms from classical antiquity to the discovery of the Higgs-Boson in 2012. The mystical ideas of the Greco-Hellenistic era are described, as well as the strokes of fate and biographical fractures in the lives of the medieval philosophers of nature. The book also points out that the ideas of the philosophers of classical antiquity and the late Middle Ages can then be regarded as kind of treasury, if it is accepted that natural science is impossible without experiments.

In the late Middle Ages and at the beginning of Early Modern Times, the rising criticism of Aristotle led to an ambivalent situation (double truth), which was resolved in the Age of Enlightenment. With that, the foundation had been laid for the development of natural sience. The author introduces in a detailed way the ideas of the structure of matter by G.Galilei, R.Descartes, R.Boyle and I.Newton. The transformation from alchemy to science is made accessible by the ideas of G.E.Stahl, A.L.Lavoisier and J.Dalton. The discovery of the electron by J.J.Thomson at the end of the 19th century was the milestone which finally brought Demokritus´ concepts down. The path from spectral analysis and radioactivity through the orbital model to the modern standard model of matter is also depicted in detail.

The book explains that these scientific achievements have not been brought about by just one single section of the population, but that all civilized peoples contributed to the acquisition of this insight. In modern times, this was, in particular, quantum mechanics, for which M.Planck et.al. laid the foundation around 1900, and which have led to the atomic Orbital Model and also to the Standard Model. Reading the book offers an insight into the influence of powerful on scientific research which was always exerted with the help of religion and ideologies.

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