Weighing The World

Author : Edwin Danson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199725090

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At the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in the world. No one knew, with any certainty, the shape of the earth or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or solid? Were the Andes the highest mountains on the Earth or was it the peak of Tenerife? Was the Earth a perfect sphere or slightly squashed as Sir Isaac Newton prophesized? In Weighing the World, master-surveyor and bestselling author Edwin Danson presents the stories of the scientists and scholars who cut their way through jungles, crossed the artic tundra, and braved the world's highest mountains to discover the truth about our Earth. Danson also recounts the extraordinary experiment, conducted on a desolate Scottish peak by Astromer Royal Neville Maskelyne, to understand the so-called "attraction of mountains," the curious capability mountians have to bend gravity, without which it would be impossible to accurately map Earth's surface. A spell-binding scientific adventure story, Weighing the World will intrigue anyone curious about the shape of our planet and how we have come to know it.

Author : Russell McCormmach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400720220

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The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts. The first and longest part is biographical, an account of Michell’s home setting (Nottinghamshire in England), the clerical world in which he grew up (Church of England), the university (Cambridge) where he studied and taught, and the scientific activities he made the center of his life. The second part is a complete edition of his known letters. Half of his letters have not been previously published; the other half are brought together in one place for the first time. The letters touch on all aspects of his career, and because they are in his words, they help bring the subject to life. His publications were not many, a slim book on magnets and magnetism, one paper on geology, two papers on astronomy, and a few brief papers on other topics, but they were enough to leave a mark on several sciences. He has been called a geologist, an astronomer, and a physicist, which he was, though we best remember him as a natural philosopher, as one who investigated physical nature broadly. His scientific contribution is not easy to summarize. Arguably he had the broadest competence of any British natural philosopher of the eighteenth century: equally skilled in experiment and observation, mathematical theory, and instruments, his field of inquiry was the universe. From the structure of the heavens through the structure of the Earth to the forces of the elementary particles of matter, he carried out original and far-reaching researches on the workings of nature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0764565192

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Marshall Brain's How Stuff Works by Anonim Pdf

Have you ever wondered... How many sheets of paper can be produced from a single tree? Why do FM radio stations end in an odd number? What causes a sonic boom? Where is the world's fastest computer located? If you've ever scratched your head and thought, why?," you'll love How Much Does the Earth Weigh? With more than 100 of the most popular questions culled from the intriguing "Question of the Day" segment of HowStuffWorks.com, this fun book answers questions you never even thought to ask. Written in Marshall Brain's award-winning style, this book explains in language you can understand the complexities behind some of the world's imponderables. You'll never look at a light socket, gas pump, or Web page the same way again!

Author : Benjamin C. Orsburn
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1499635753

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Weighing the World by Benjamin C. Orsburn Pdf

Mass spectrometry is one of the most rapidly growing fields in science. In this book we will learn why and how this technology is changing our view and understanding of the world around us. We'll see how mass spectrometry is being used to convict criminals and to detect explosives. We'll see how it is leading us to the discovery of new drugs and telling us what becomes of these drugs in the body before toxic side effects could ever appear. We'll talk about the curious mission of the Curiosity Rover and how this new science even effects when we change our motor oil. We'll look at where the technology came from as well as where it appears to be heading by describing some of the cutting edge research and techniques that are opening up our understanding of our world -- and even our minds.

Author : Errol Lord,Barry Maguire
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190613860

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Weighing Reasons by Errol Lord,Barry Maguire Pdf

In recent decades normative reasons-considerations that count in favor of one thing or another-have come to the theoretical fore in ethics and epistemology. A major attraction of normative reasons is that they have weight or strength. Reasons are particular considerations that count in favor of actions or attitudes to some degree. This feature is attractive to theorists who want to explain more complex normative phenomena in terms of a notion that is weighted. This volume aims to provide the beginnings for a theory of weight. The fourteen new essays fall into three groups. One set of essays addresses questions about the nature of weight. Topics include the relations between reasons and conditions and modifiers, between reasons and other weighted notions such as commitments, and different models of the interaction of reasons. A second set of essays addresses substantive questions: questions about weight relevant to value-first, desire-first, evidence-first and other normative research programs. A third set of essays applies issues in the theory of weight to broader ethical debates. The book thus not only makes novel contributions to debates in ethics and epistemology about the nature of normative reasons and their weight, it also makes a strong case for the theoretical fruitfulness of the ideology of normative reasons.

Author : National Conference on Weights and Measures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Scales (Weighing instruments)
ISBN : PSU:000049661538

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Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices by National Conference on Weights and Measures Pdf

Author : Natali Valdez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780520380141

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Weighing the Future by Natali Valdez Pdf

"Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression and has been heralded as one of the most promising new fields of scientific inquiry. Current large-scale pregnancy studies draw on epigenetics to connect pregnant women's behavioral choices, like diet and exercise, to future health risks for unborn babies. As the first ethnography of its kind, Weighing the Future examines the sociopolitical implications of ongoing pregnancy trials in the United States and the United Kingdom, illuminating how processes of scientific knowledge production are linked to capitalism, surveillance, and environmental reproduction. The environments we imagine to shape our genes, bodies, and future health are tied to race, gender, and structures of inequality. This groundbreaking book makes the case that science, and how we translate it, is a reproductive project that requires feminist vigilance. Instead of fixating on a future at risk, this book brings attention to the present at stake"--

Author : Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030291891

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Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) and Ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc.) - World's Invaluable Medicinal Spices by Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair Pdf

This book discusses the various aspects, from production to marketing of turmeric and ginger, the world’s two most important and invaluable medicinal spice crops. The book begins with their origin and history, global spread, and goes on to describe the botany, production agronomy, fertilizer practices, pest management, post-harvest technology, pharmacology and nutraceutical uses. The book presents the economy, import-export and world markets involved with reference to turmeric and ginger. It would be a benchmark and an important reference source for scientists, students, both undergraduate and post graduate, studying agriculture and food sciences and policy makers. It would be of great interest to professionals and industry involved in spice trade.

Author : National Institute of Standards and Technology
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788124641

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Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices by National Institute of Standards and Technology Pdf

This handbook is designed to be a working tool for the weights & measures official, the equip. mfr., installer, & repairman. It conforms to the concept of the primary use of metric measurements by citing metric units before inch-pound units where both units appear together, & placing separate sections containing requirements in metric units before corresponding sections containing requirements in inch-pound units. Covers: liquid-measuring devices, milk meters, water meters, mass flow meters, liquid measures, graduates, dry measures, odometers, taximeters, etc. Tables.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385106420

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Fairbanks Standard Weighing Machines by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : William Nordhaus
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300209396

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A Question of Balance by William Nordhaus Pdf

How economic analysis can help us design economic policies to address the looming challenges of global warming As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken center stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues involved in understanding global warming and slowing its harmful effects are complex and cross disciplinary boundaries. For example, ecologists see global warming as a threat to ecosystems, utilities as a debit to their balance sheets, and farmers as a hazard to their livelihoods. In this important work, William Nordhaus integrates the entire spectrum of economic and scientific research to weigh the costs of reducing emissions against the benefits of reducing the long-run damages from global warming. The book offers one of the most extensive analyses of the economic and environmental dynamics of greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change and provides the tools to evaluate alternative approaches to slowing global warming. The author emphasizes the need to establish effective mechanisms, such as carbon taxes, to harness markets and harmonize the efforts of different countries. This book not only will shape discussion of one the world's most pressing problems but will provide the rationales and methods for achieving widespread agreement on our next best move in alleviating global warming.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Comparative education
ISBN : OSU:32435029745445

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Information on Education Around the World by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Conference on Weights and Measures. Meeting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Measuring instruments
ISBN : UIUC:30112005403180

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Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices by National Conference on Weights and Measures. Meeting Pdf

Author : Mark Weakland
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781479519125

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How Heavy? by Mark Weakland Pdf

Compares various heavy objects to lighter objects in unique, illustrated ways.

Author : Sharon Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Creation
ISBN : BL:A0017118759

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The Sacred History of the World by Sharon Turner Pdf