Editing Ernst Mach (section)

=== Early life ===
Mach was born in Chrlice ({{langx|de|Chirlitz}}), [[Moravia]], [[Austrian Empire]] (now part of [[Brno]] in the [[Czech Republic]]). His father Jan Nepomuk Mach, who had graduated from [[Charles-Ferdinand University]] in [[Prague]], acted as tutor to the noble Brethon family in [[Zlín]] in eastern Moravia. His grandfather, Wenzl Lanhaus, an administrator of the Chirlitz estate, was also master builder of the streets there. His activities in that field later influenced Ernst Mach's theoretical work. Some sources give Mach's birthplace as Tuřany ({{langx|de|Turas}}, also part of Brno), the site of the Chirlitz registry office. It was there that Mach was baptised by Peregrin Weiss. Mach later became a [[socialist]] and an [[atheist]],{{sfn|Cohen|Seeger|1975|p=158|ps=: And Mach, in personal conviction, was a socialist and an atheist.}} but his theory and life was sometimes compared to [[Buddhism]]. [[Heinrich Gomperz]] called Mach the "Buddha of Science" because of his [[phenomenalist]] approach to the "Ego" in his ''Analysis of Sensations''.{{sfn| Baatz|1992|pp=183–199}}{{sfn|Blackmore|1972 |loc=Chapter 18 – Mach and Buddhism|p=293|ps= : Mach was logically a Buddhist and illogically a believer in science.}}
[[File:Ernst_Mach_Inner_perspective.jpg|thumb|Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886) featured in "Analysis of Sensations", also known as "view from the left eye"]]
Up to the age of 14, Mach was educated at home by his parents. He then entered a [[Gymnasium (school)|gymnasium]] in [[Kroměříž]] ({{langx|de|Kremsier}}), where he studied for three years. In 1855 he became a student at the [[University of Vienna]], where he studied [[physics]] and for one semester medical physiology, receiving his doctorate in physics in 1860 under [[Andreas von Ettingshausen]] with the thesis ''Über elektrische Ladungen und Induktion'', and his [[habilitation]] the following year. His early work focused on the [[Doppler effect]] in [[optics]] and [[acoustics]].