Preface

1. Ernst Mach and the Fortunes of Positivism

2. More on Mach and Einstein

3. Quanta, Relativity, and Rhetoric

4. On the Jeffersonian Research Program

5. The Controversy over the End of Science

6. The Anti-Science Phenomenon

Sources

Index

Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics, and Research Professor of History of Science, Harvard University.

Read More by Gerald Holton:

• The Scientific Imagination, With a New Introduction
• The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens
• Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein, Second Edition
• Einstein, History, and Other Passions: The Rebellion against Science at the End of the Twentieth Century
• Victory and Vexation in Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others