The physicist Werner Heisenberg opens Der Teil und das Ganze (1969; published in English as Physics and Beyond in 1971), his personal account of the development of atomic physics in the first half of the twentieth century, with a citation from Thucydides; 1.22.1, to be precise (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Michael Frayn’
The Uncertainty Principle
Posted in Musings, tagged historiography, Michael Frayn, rhetoric, Thucydides, Werner Heisenberg on February 19, 2018| 1 Comment »
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