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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
It is very far from my purpose to construct an antithesis between a purely scientific and a technical conception of the Problem of Mechanics. The conflict which undoubtedly existed some years ago, and at times was waged with bitterness, has come to a satisfactory conclusion; and a generous appreciation of the two different directions of investigation has taken the place of unseemly strife. From my personal knowledge of the Technical High School in Aachen, I at least can lay stress on the fact that I have been encouraged in the most ready manner by my technical colleagues of all departments.
* Professor Sommerfeld has kindly given permission to publish this abridged translation of the address, which he delivered to the Naturwissenschaftliche Hauptgruppe in Sept. 1903. The complete address is to be found in the Physikalische Zcitschrift, Vol. IV. No. 26b, pp. 773-782.
I am indebted to my colleague Mr. C. S. Jackson for suggesting the translation and for occasional advice on the matter of abridgment, and on the rendering of some passages. The whole address is worthy of the attention of any teacher of elementary mechanics, who wishes to get some idea of the more advanced methods and the recent developments of mechanical teaching in Germany.
page note 28 * Described in the supplement to Dyck’s Catalogue of mathematical models, apparatus and instruments, Miinchen 1893.