University of Tennessee College of Veterinary
Author: Max Planck
Translator: A. P. Wills
Release Date: February 29, 2012 [EBook #39017]
Language: English
The present book has for its object the presentation of the lectures which I delivered
as foreign lecturer at Columbia University in the spring of the present year under the
title: “The Present System of Theoretical Physics.” The points of view which influenced
me in the selection and treatment of the material are given at the beginning of the first
lecture. Essentially, they represent the extension of a theoretical physical scheme, the
fundamental elements of which I developed in an address at Leyden entitled: “The
Unity of the Physical Concept of the Universe.” Therefore I regard it as advantageous
to consider again some of the topics of that lecture. The presentation will not and can
not, of course, claim to cover exhaustively in all directions the principles of theoretical
physics.