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Slide: Planck on Mach's Criticism of Newton's Principle of Inertia

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Sequence: 1.2 Auf den Schultern von Riesen und Zwergen

Branching Point: On the Shoulders of Giants and Dwarfs

Sequence: 1.2.1 Biographie 11220: Aristoteles

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Sequence: 1.2.2 Biographie 11220: Isaac Newton

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Sequence: 1.2.3 Biographie 11220: Albert Einstein

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Slide: Newton's Principle of Inertia

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Sequence: 1.5 Machs Kritik an Newtons Traegheitsprinzip

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Slide: Ernst Mach’s Mechanics

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Branching Point: Mach's Argument Against Newton's Absolute Space

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Slide: Planck on Mach's Criticism of Newton's Principle of Inertia

Slide: Einstein’s Obituary for Ernst Mach

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Ernst Mach’s Mechanics

The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Exposition of Its Principles, London 1893

Mach’s work is a critique of the dogmatism in the physics of his day. One chapter is dedicated to the critique of Newton’s principle of inertia. The inertia of a body is not a property of the body, Mach argues, but rather an effect exerted on the body by all other bodies of the universe.

Ernst Mach, The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Exposition of Its Principles

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