TY - BOOK ID - 120428441 TI - Physics as a Calling : Discipline and Practice in the Königsburg Seminar for Physics PY - 2019 SN - 1501737376 PB - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:120428441 AB - In this book, Kathryn M. Olesko reconstructs in fine detail the evolution, across the nineteenth century, of Franz Neumann's physics seminar at Königsberg University in East Prussia. Established during a period of in tense educational reform and intellectual debate in the sciences, the seminar turned out academic physicists as well as secondary school teachers. As the first official science seminar to incorporate mathematical considerations, Neumann's institute pioneered the integration of two quantitative traditions in physics—the mathematical and the exact experimental. ER -