Publication Date:
2017-04-04
Description:
The ”Mach’s Principle” has beenconsidered for more than a century as the highest
expression of the philosophical rationality of the western world, but it is possible to
proof that it is built on a unstable ground and with uncomplete assumptions. With a great
intellectual honesty, Ernst Mach showed in his works some awareness of the incompleteness
of his reasoning about inertia. Moreover the Mach Principle is often misinterpreted by
scientific community with an illegitimate extrapolation of the Mach words.
Description:
Published
Description:
239-242
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5.9. Formazione e informazione
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open
Keywords:
Mach Principle
;
Inertia conceptions
;
Fluid dynamics
;
05. General::05.03. Educational, History of Science, Public Issues::05.03.99. General or miscellaneous
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
book chapter
