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Newton: Alchemist, filosoof en natuurwetenschapper
Newtons naam is verbonden aan veel wetten en theorieën. We kennen 'de newton' als eenheid van kracht, de bewegingswetten van Newton en de zwaartekrachtstheorie van Newton. De laatste wordt vaak geïllustreerd aan de hand van de beroemde anekdote met…
Niels Bohr's time
Bohr was the first to understand how atoms were put together, he played a major role in shaping the theory of the atomic nucleus, he decoded the atomic spectrum of hydrogen, an achievement which marks him as the founder of the quantum dynamics of…
Of Stars and Men: Reminiscences of an Astronomer
The twentieth century has been a remarkable epoch in the affairs of men, and this is no less true of astronomy, at once the oldest and most modern of the sciences. Sky watchers at the beginning of the century measured positions and predicted…
On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (On the Shoulders of Giants)
this groundbreaking work of astronomy proposed a heliocentric universe in which planets orbited the sun-daring to challenge the Ptolemaic ideal of the earth as the center of the universe. This essay by Copernicus (1473-1543), revolutionized the way…
Oort, Melkwegonderzoeker en grondlegger van de radioastronomie
Jan Hendrik Oort (1900-1992) was een van de grote sterrenkundigen van de vorige eeuw. Bij veel mensenn is hij bekend vanwege zijn idee van de kometenwolk - 'Oortwolk' - aan de grenzen van het zonnestelsel en de ontrafeling van de structuur van ons…
Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light-Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730
One of the most readable of all the great classics of physical science, Opticks comprises a comprehensive survey of 18th-century knowledge of light, describing Newtons own experiments with spectroscopy, colors, lenses, reflection, refraction and…
Parallax
This lively history of the struggle to measure the distance to the stars introduces a memorable cast of historical figures, from ancient Greeks to nineteenth-century scientists. Characters include an impoverished boy, plucked from a collapsed…