Ernst Mach (1838 to 1916) was an experimental physicist whose work shaped debates on the foundations of physics and on the nature and scope of scientific knowledge. Born in Chirlitz, now a district of Brno in Moravia, he studied physics at the University of Vienna, served as professor of mathematics and then of physics at Graz, and from 1867 to 1895 held the chair of experimental physics at the University of Prague, where he was twice rector. He researched acoustics, shock waves and the physiology of the sense organs, and the speed of sound bears his name because he was the first to study supersonic motion systematically. His critique of Newtonian absolute space and time inspired the young Einstein. His philosophy of science, a historically oriented account of the concepts and laws of science, fed into the background of logical empiricism.
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Ernst Mach was born on February 18, 1838, in Chirlitz (Chrlice), now a city district in the southern part of Brno
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as he was the first to systematically study supersonic motion
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In 1855 he entered the University of Vienna to study physics
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Mach was appointed in 1867 to the Chair of Experimental Physics at the University of Prague
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Ernst Mach was born on February 18, 1838, in Chirlitz (Chrlice), now a city district in the southern part of Brno
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contributing to the intellectual background of logical empiricism
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Ernst Mach (1838 - 1916) was an Austrian philosopher of the Modern era
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was an Austrian philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Continental Philosophy.
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was an Austrian philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Continental Philosophy.
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