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Sterrenburcht, historische roman over een genie die zijn leven in dienst stelde
het leven van Tycho Brahe beschreven tijdens de periode die hij doorbracht op het eiland Ven in de Sont. Zijn levenspartner Kirsten speelt in het boek ook een belangrijke rol.
Sterrenkijker: De geschiedenis van de telescoopijker
De telescoop is zonder twijfel een van de verst reikende uitvindingen: hij onthult de geheimen van het universum, hij is een tijdmachine die miljarden jaren terug kan kijken. Fred Watson beschrijft vierhonderd jaar geschiedenis en de technologie…
Sun the Moon and the Stars
Since the dawn of human consciousness, the sun, the moon, and the stars have inspired awe, curiosity, fear, and delight. The great works of art collected in this book beautifully convey the sense of wonder and magic that have always attended these…
The atom in the history of human thought
The idea of the atom--the ultimate essence of physical reality, indivisible and eternal--has been the focus of a quest that has engaged humanity for 2,500 years. That quest is captured in The Atom in the History of Human Thought.
Here is a panoramic…
The beat of a different drum
The Beat of a Different Drum is a superb account of Feynman's life and work, encompassing a singular career that spanned from the detonation of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos to the frontiers of our understanding of the universe. The first…
The book that nobody read
1543 saw the publication of one of the most significant scientific works ever written: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), in which Nicolaus Copernicus presented a radically different structure of the cosmos by placing the…
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy (Cambridge Illustrated Histories)
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy traces the history of astronomy as a science, describing in detail the various discoveries that have led to our current beliefs about space and the universe. It shows how speculations based on sky-gazing…
The Common Sense of Science
, a book which remains as topical today as it was when it first appeared twenty-five years ago, articulates and develops Bronowski's provocative idea that the sciences and the arts fundamentally share the same imaginative vision.
The curious life of Robert Hooke
The brilliant, largely forgotten maverick Robert Hooke was an engineer, surveyor, architect and inventor who was appointed London's Chief Surveyor after the Great Fire of 1666. Throughout the 1670s he worked tirelessly with his intimate friend…