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Author : Harlow Shapley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 0674821858
Author : Kirtley Fletcher Mather
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674822757
Here, find source literature for the most important contributions to the remarkable recent expansion of geological knowledge. Excerpted are 65 articles on topics including the constitution of Earth's interior, earthquakes, radioactive timekeepers, submarine features and deep-sea cores, entrapment of petroleum, and crystal structure.
Author : Henry Marshall Leicester,Herbert S. Klickstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674822307
A collection of important writings in the history of chemistry from 1400-1900, each with an introduction by the editors.
Author : Harlow Shapley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : OCLC:504795627
Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 0674823605
This Source Book explores a millennium of European scientific thought accompanied by critical commentary and annotation; nearly half the selections appear for the first time in the vernacular. Representing "science" in the medieval sense, selections include alchemy, astrology, logic, and theology as well as mathematics, physics, and biology.
Author : George Kish
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 0674822706
Presents geographical writings, chronologically arranged, with a wealth of material from non-Western sources. Each section is introduced by the editor.
Author : D. J. Struik
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0674823559
Author : Kenneth R. Lang,Owen Gingerich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UOM:39076006195734
In this volume readers can rediscover A.S. Eddington's elegant proof of the virial theorem for star clusters, Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky's 1932 proposal for the existence of neutron stars, and Thomas Gold's forecast of collapsed stars as radio sources. They can reread, in the words of the canyons, pulsars, interstellar hydrogen cosmic magnetic fields, quasars, and remnant background radiation of the primeval big bang.
Author : John North
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226594415
The definitive history of humanity's search to find its place within the universe. North charts the history of astronomy and cosmology from the Paleolithic period to the present day.
Author : Giora Shaviv
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642283857
This book describes the origins and evolution of the chemical elements we and the cosmos are made of. The story starts with the discovery of the common elements on Earth and their subsequent discovery in space. How do we learn the composition of the distant stars? How did progress in quantum theory, nuclear physics, spectroscopy, stellar structure and evolution, together with observations of stars, converge to provide an incredibly detailed picture of the universe? How does research in the micro-world explain the macro-world? How does progress in one affect the other, or lack of knowledge in one inhibit progress in the other? In short, Shaviv describes how we discovered the various pieces of the jigsaw that form our present picture of the universe; and how we sometimes put these in the wrong place before finding in the right one. En route we meet some fascinating personalities and learn about heated controversies. Shaviv shows how science lurched from one dogma to the next, time and again shattering much of what had been considered solid knowledge, until eventually a stable understanding arose. Beginning with generally accepted science, the book ends in today’s terra incognita of nuclear physics, astrophysics and cosmology. A monumental work that will fascinate scientists, philosophers, historians and lay readers alike.
Author : Jean-Louis Tassoul,Monique Tassoul
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691165929
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of ideas about the sun and the stars, from antiquity to modern times. Two theoretical astrophysicists who have been active in the field since the early 1960s tell the story in fluent prose. About half of the book covers most of the theoretical research done from 1940 to the close of the twentieth century, a large body of work that has to date been little explored by historians. The first chapter, which outlines the period from about 3000 B.C. to 1700 A.D., shows that at every stage in history human beings have had a particular understanding of the sun and stars, and that this has continually evolved over the centuries. Next the authors systematically address the immense mass of observations astronomy accumulated from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth. The remaining four chapters examine the history of the field from the physicists perspective, the emphasis being on theoretical work from the mid-1840s to the late 1990s--from thermodynamics to quantum mechanics, from nuclear physics and magnetohydrodynamics to the remarkable advances through to the late 1960s, and finally, to more recent theoretical work. Intended mainly for students and teachers of astronomy, this book will also be a useful reference for practicing astronomers and scientifically curious general readers.
Author : Jeff Kanipe
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780374707224
Chasing Hubble's Shadows is an account of the continuing efforts of astronomers to probe the outermost limits of the observable universe. The book derives its title from something the great American astronomer Edwin Hubble once wrote: "Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial." The quest for Hubble's "shadows"—those unimaginably distant, wispy traces of stars and galaxies that formed within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang—takes us back, in effect, to the beginning of time as we are able to perceive it, when the first discrete stellar objects appeared out of what has lately come to be known as the "cosmic dark age." The information that is being gleaned from these dim sources—chiefly with the aid of Hubble's namesake, the Hubble Space Telescope—promises to yield clues to many cosmic puzzles, including the nature of the mysterious "dark energy" that is now believed to pervade all of space.
Author : Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393243277
A riveting road map to the development of modern scientific thought. In the tradition of her perennial bestseller The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer delivers an accessible, entertaining, and illuminating springboard into the scientific education you never had. Far too often, public discussion of science is carried out by journalists, voters, and politicians who have received their science secondhand. The Story of Western Science shows us the joy and importance of reading groundbreaking science writing for ourselves and guides us back to the masterpieces that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos, and ourselves. Able to be referenced individually, or read together as the narrative of Western scientific development, the book's twenty-eight succinct chapters lead readers from the first science texts by Hippocrates, Plato, and Aristotle through twentieth-century classics in biology, physics, and cosmology. The Story of Western Science illuminates everything from mankind's earliest inquiries to the butterfly effect, from the birth of the scientific method to the rise of earth science and the flowering of modern biology. Each chapter recommends one or more classic books and provides entertaining accounts of crucial contributions to science, vivid sketches of the scientist-writers, and clear explanations of the mechanics underlying each concept. The Story of Western Science reveals science to be a dramatic undertaking practiced by some of history's most memorable characters. It reminds us that scientific inquiry is a human pursuit—an essential, often deeply personal, sometimes flawed, frequently brilliant way of understanding the world. The Story of Western Science is an "entertaining and unique synthesis" (Times Higher Education), a "fluidly written" narrative that "celebrates the inexorable force of human curiosity" (Wall Street Journal), and a "bright, informative resource for readers seeking to understand science through the eyes of the men and women who shaped its history" (Kirkus). Previously published as The Story of Science.
Author : Walter J. Maciel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461437673
The space between the stars contains a large diversity of objects in which physical processes occur that are fundamental to the structure and evolution of galaxies. This book offers the reader a basic knowledge of these processes and presents simple numeric estimates of the main quantities relevant to the interstellar medium. The main objects that constitute the interstellar space are described, but the emphasis of the book lies in the physical processes occurring in these objects, which may also occur in other astrophysical environments. The book is directed tor graduate as well as advanced undergraduate students of physics and astrophysics.
Author : M.G.J. Minnaert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401034142
