The Engineer and the Scandal: A Piece of Science History
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Book Details
Author(s)
Reint de Boer
Publisher
Springer
ISBN / ASIN
3540231110
ISBN-13
9783540231110
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
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Description
Offers an eye-opening and revealing look into an interpersonal/scientific conflict involving the ‘Father of Modern Soil Mechanics’ Karl von Terzaghi.
Exemplifies the ‘human side’ of science in which, sometimes, the prominence of a theorist and the inertia of the ‘accepted wisdom’ can inhibit progress and rational discussion of the facts.
More than 100 illustrations combine with historical details in the text to evoke a vivid picture of the lost era of pre-WWII Vienna.
