A Matter of Matter or a Matter of Space? Heinrich Hertz's Image of Mass in his Prinzipien der Mechanik

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It is argued that Hertz introduced Massenteilchen in his Principles of Mechanics because they allowed him to deduce the line element of his differential geometric formalism
Original languageEnglish
JournalArchives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Volume49
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)103-121
ISSN0003-9810
Publication statusPublished - 1999

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