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…
L’Histoire de l’Astronomie vous conte toutes les prodigieuses étapes de cette merveilleuse histoire, depuis les premiers observateurs célestes jusqu’aux instruments modernes les plus complexes, depuis la Chine antique à l’Angleterre de Newton, et…
The great work that founded analytical geometry. Included here is the original French text, Descartes' own diagrams, together with the definitive Smith-Latham translation. "The greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences." —…
A lively and extremely accessible introduction to seven strikingly original thinkers who provided the world with new views of reality. Presents the history of physics through abbreviated biographies which concentrate on the personalities of the…
Albert Einstein was a ladies man? Who married his first cousin? And he was how old when he re-invented physics?
From the cover of one of the latest Time Magazine special issues, Albert Einstein stares down grocery store shoppers and book store…
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…
Huygens (1629 - 1695) is het ideale onderwerp voor een biografie. Niet alleen heeft hij een schier oneindige reeks ontdekkingen op zijn naam staan (hij vond de slingerpendule uit en construeerde een telescoop met een verbeterde lensconstructie,…