Hermann Von Helmholtza (TM)S Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty: A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature, Vol. 17

Two seemingly contradictory tendencies have accompanied the development of the natural sciences in the past 150 years. On the one hand, the natural sciences have been instrumental in effecting a thoroughgoing transformation of social structures and have made a permanent impact on the conceptual world of human beings. This historical period has, on the other hand, also brought to light the merely hypothetical validity of scientific knowledge. As late as the middle of the 19th century the truth-pathos in the natural sciences was still unbroken. Yet in the succeeding years these claims to certain knowledge underwent a fundamental crisis. For scientists today, of course, the fact that their knowledge can possess only relative validity is a matter of self-evidence.Schiemann, Gregor is the author of 'Hermann Von Helmholtza (TM)S Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty: A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature, Vol. 17', published 2008 under ISBN 9781402056291 and ISBN 140205629X.