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Author : John POTTER (Mathematician)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1753
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018199926
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455985
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015082988836
Author : Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015033648125
Author : British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030015571989
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117174537
Author : Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015082987614
Author : C. M. Linton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139453790
Since man first looked towards the heavens, a great deal of effort has been put into trying to predict and explain the motions of the sun, moon and planets. Developments in man's understanding have been closely linked to progress in the mathematical sciences. Whole new areas of mathematics, such as trigonometry, were developed to aid astronomical calculations, and on numerous occasions throughout history, breakthroughs in astronomy have only been possible because of progress in mathematics. This book describes the theories of planetary motion that have been developed through the ages, beginning with the homocentric spheres of Eudoxus and ending with Einstein's general theory of relativity. It emphasizes the interaction between progress in astronomy and in mathematics, showing how the two have been inextricably linked since Babylonian times. This valuable text is accessible to a wide audience, from amateur astronomers to professional historians of astronomy.
Author : Michael J. de F. Maunder,Patrick Moore
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 1852336218
Although transits of planets across the Sun are rare (only Mercury and Venus orbit the Sun closer than us, and so can transit the Suns disc) amateur astronomers can observe, record and image other kinds of transits that are much more frequent. This book first tells the fascinating story of the early scientific expeditions to observe transits. It then explains how to observe transits of all sorts - even transits of aircraft as they fly between the observer and the Sun.
Author : Douglas W. MacDougal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461454441
“Newton’s Gravity” conveys the power of simple mathematics to tell the fundamental truth about nature. Many people, for example, know the tides are caused by the pull of the Moon and to a lesser extent the Sun. But very few can explain exactly how and why that happens. Fewer still can calculate the actual pulls of the Moon and Sun on the oceans. This book shows in clear detail how to do this with simple tools. It uniquely crosses disciplines – history, astronomy, physics and mathematics – and takes pains to explain things frequently passed over or taken for granted in other books. Using a problem-based approach, “Newton’s Gravity” explores the surprisingly basic mathematics behind gravity, the most fundamental force that governs the movements of satellites, planets, and the stars. Author Douglas W. MacDougal uses actual problems from the history of astronomy, as well as original examples, to deepen understanding of how discoveries were made and what they mean. “Newton’s Gravity” concentrates strongly on the development of the science of orbital motion, beginning with Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, each of whom is prominently represented. Quotes and problems from Galileo’s Dialogs Concerning Two New Sciences and particularly Newton’s Principia help the reader get inside the mind of those thinkers and see the problems as they saw them, and experience their concise and typically eloquent writing. This book enables students and curious minds to explore the mysteries of celestial motion without having to know advanced mathematics. It will whet the reader’s curiosity to explore further and provide him or her the tools (mathematical or physical) to do so.
Author : David Marshall Miller,Dana Jalobeanu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108420303
A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.
Author : Ravi P Agarwal,Syamal K Sen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319108704
The book records the essential discoveries of mathematical and computational scientists in chronological order, following the birth of ideas on the basis of prior ideas ad infinitum. The authors document the winding path of mathematical scholarship throughout history, and most importantly, the thought process of each individual that resulted in the mastery of their subject. The book implicitly addresses the nature and character of every scientist as one tries to understand their visible actions in both adverse and congenial environments. The authors hope that this will enable the reader to understand their mode of thinking, and perhaps even to emulate their virtues in life.
Author : Tofigh Heidarzadeh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402083235
Although the development of ideas about the motion and trajectory of comets has been investigated piecemeal, we lack a comprehensive and detailed survey of ph- ical theories of comets. The available works either illustrate relatively short periods in the history of physical cometology or portray a landscape view without adequate details. The present study is an attempt to review – with more details – the major physical theories of comets in the past two millennia, from Aristotle to Whipple. My research, however, did not begin with antiquity. The basic question from which this project originated was a simple inquiry about the cosmic identity of comets at the dawn of the astronomical revolution: how did natural philosophers and astronomers define the nature and place of a new category of celestial objects – comets – after Brahe’s estimation of cometary distances? It was from this turning point in the history of cometary theories that I expanded my studies in both the pre-modern and modern eras. A study starting merely from Brahe and ending with Newton, without covering classical and medieval thought about comets, would be incomplete and leave the fascinating achievements of post-Newtonian cometology unexplored.
Author : Graham Farmelo
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571250073
'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize. Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather.Based on a previously undiscovered archive of family papers, Graham Farmelo celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work. Farmelo shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship.The Strangest Man is an extraordinary and moving human story, as well as a study of one of the most exciting times in scientific history. 'A wonderful book . . . Moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science.' Lord Waldegrave, Daily Telegraph
Author : M.J. Nye,J. Richards,R. Stuewer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401124881
Modern physical science is constituted by specialized scientific fields rooted in experimental laboratory work and in rational and mathematical representations. Contemporary scientific explanation is rigorously differentiated from religious interpretation, although, to be sure, scientists sometimes do the philosophical work of interpreting the metaphysics of space, time, and matter. However, it is rare that either theologians or philosophers convincingly claim that they are doing the scientific work of physical scientists and mathematicians. The rigidity of these divisions and differentiations is relatively new. Modern physical science was invented slowly and gradually through interactions of the aims and contents of mathematics, theology, and natural philosophy since the seventeenth century. In essays ranging in focus from seventeenth-century interpretations of heavenly comets to twentieth-century explanations of tracks in bubble chambers, ten historians of science demonstrate metaphysical and theological threads continuing to underpin the epistemology and practice of the physical sciences and mathematics, even while they became disciplinary specialties during the last three centuries. The volume is prefaced by tributes to Erwin N. Hiebert, whose teaching and scholarship have addressed and inspired attention to these issues.