Anno 1688. Diepe droefheid heerst in 't hart van China's Keizer. Hem is een vriend ontvallen, een gerespecteerd vertrouwensman, een eminent geleerde/ de Vlaamse jezuït Ferdinand Verbiest...
Deze missionaris heeft gepresteerd wat velen onmogelijk…
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…