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This volume is part of a small series that intends to make major texts by the German scientist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912–2007) available in English to a wider audience. Through his writings, many of which have already appeared in an earlier English translation, he has become known as a preeminent theoretical physicist and one of the most important German philosophers of the 20th century. This volume is devoted to texts in physics while 4 other volumes of this series present an overview of his writings, selections of texts in philosophy, religion, and on politics and peace research, respectively.
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See CF. von Weizsäcker (1988). See also the website on this book on Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, at: <http://afes-press-books.de/html/SpringerBriefs_PSP_C.F.v._Weizsaecker.htm>.
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Cf. footnote 1.
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“Die Atomwaffe”, Interview 1984 with H. Jaenecke for the periodical Stern, in: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1988).
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Cf. footnote 1.
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See Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1980).
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See Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1980).
References
von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, 1948: Die Geschichte der Natur (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), English translation: The History of Nature (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1949).
von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, 1971: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux), 1980; Translation of: Die Einheit der Natur (Munich: Hanser).
von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, 1988: Bewußtseinswandel (Munich: Hanser): 362–376.
von Weizsäcker, C.F., 1988: “Self-Portrait”, in: The Ambivalence of Progress (New York: Paragon, 1988): 1–30.
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Drieschner, M. (2014). Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Physics—A Brief Introduction by the Editor. In: Drieschner, M. (eds) Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Physics. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03668-7_1
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