Suman Seth, “Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926” (MIT Press, 2010)
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The Importance of Experimental Realisability
The next chapter actually brings us to this conference. This is a book that you mentioned. We've already talked about the kind of humor of looking at Zommerfeld and his mustache really short and plonk with the equation and Murray Curie just kind of hanging out on the table. One of the really interesting things that your treatment of this and your sort of account of this in this chapter does is to try to recreate the argumentative logic here. So it's methodologically in terms of the methodology of how we do the history of science. That was very interesting to me. And I think it's a wider relevance than just the history of physics. Thank you.
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