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The inside story behind one of the most important cosmological findings of our generation, the mapping of the cosmic background radiation, by the leader of the scientific team that made the discovery. . In this no-holds-barred account, the Cosmic…

Never before has time obsessed humanity as much as now. The more accurately we measure it, the more it worries us. Although we complain that it passes too quickly, we seldom question its fundamental characteristics or the methods we use to measure…

Alan Turing is ongetwijfeld een van de belangrijkste computerwetenschappers aller tijden. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog kraakte hij de Duitse geheimtaal waarmeeonderzeeboten communiceerden. Het apparaat waarmee hij dat deed, de Enigma, wordt…

On his deathbed in 1601, the greatest naked-eye astronomer, Tycho Brahe, told his young colleague, Johannes Kepler, “Let me not have lived in vain.” For more than thirty years, Tycho had made meticulous observations of planetary movements and the…

Première biographie complète du mathématicien-cosmologiste Georges Lemaître, considéré comme le "père du Big Bang", ce livre s'attache d'abord à saisir les apports scientifiques majeurs de Georges Lemaître non seulement en cosmologie mais aussi en…

Deals with the book of Giovanni Lupato called `SN1054: Una Supernova sul Medioevo' regarding the identification of the supernova of 1054 in the Latin West, Europe. Comments on Lupato's claims in the role of the supernova of 1054 in the supernova in…

David Cassidy's portrait of this brilliant, ambitious and controversial scientist is the definitive Heisenberg biography. "An absorbing new biography of Werner Heisenberg ..." The Sunday Telegraph "Uncertainty is an exquisite book." Nature "...well…

This book compiles an array of interesting constellations that fell by the wayside before the IAU established the modern canon of constellations. That decision left out lesser known ones whose history is nevertheless interesting, but at last author…

Vier eeuwen Vlaams vernuft. Van Mercator tot Frimout schetst van achttien befaamde en minder bekende onderzoekers een uitvoerige levensloop en licht hun historisch belang toe: Mercator, Vesalius, Lessius, Stevin, Wendelen, Van Helmont, Palfijn, Van…