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This chapter gives first in 1.2 and 1.3 an overview of the historical background of quantum theory.

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  1. Pais, A.: Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1988) (A wide ranging history of modern physics, by a man who played an important role in it.)

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  2. Dijksterhuis, E.J.: The Mechanization of the World Picture: Pythagoras to Newton. Translated from the original Dutch edition of 1950. Princeton University Press, Princeton (1986)

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Bongaarts, P. (2015). Introduction. In: Quantum Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09561-5_1

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