Blader door items (211 in totaal)

Longitude van Dava Sobel beschrijft de historische zoektocht inde 18e eeuw naar een betrouwbare methode om de lengtegraad op zee te bepalen.Het boek richt zich op de onwaarschijnlijke triomf van John Harrison, een autodidactische klokkenmaker, die…

The Calendar and its History: This fascinating book draws together a wealth of diverse material on the much-trusted (and rarely disputed) phenomenon we know as the calendar. From the fundamentals of astronomy to the world's ancient time-keeping…

Greenwich has been a centre for scientific computing since the foundation of the Royal Observatory in 1675. Early Astronomers Royal gathered astronomical data with the purpose of enabling navigators to compute their longitude at sea.  Nevil Maskelyne…

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) is beroemd geworden door zijn theorie over de samenhang van thermische, elektrische en magnetische verschijnselen. Maxwell was geen makkelijke man: zijn persoonlijk leven verliep zonder opvallende gebeurtenissen,…

In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world’s first international, cooperative scientific expedition. Intent on making precise astronomical…

Loosely based on the lives of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann's novel, a German bestseller widely heralded as an exemplar of "new" German fiction, injects musty history…