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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…
The Geometry of Rene Descartes
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." —…
Astronomer by Chance (Sloan Foundation Science Series)
Astronomer By Chance is an especially apt title. Living in the small, isolated village of Oldland Common midway between Bath and Bristol, the twin pursuits of the young Bernard Lovell, playing the church organ and playing cricket, gave no indication…
The History of Mathematics: A Reader
In 1922 Barnes Wallis, who later invented the bouncing bomb immortalized in the movie The Dam Busters, fell in love for the first and last time, aged 35. The object of his affection, Molly Bloxam, was 17 and setting off to study science at…
Una supernova sul medioevo
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…
Astronomical Centers of the World
Book Description This is a thorough introduction to observatories that have made particularly important observational and theoretical advances in the field of astronomy, and to the astronomers who made them famous.
About the Author Kevin Krisciunas…
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…
De top-100 van wetenschappers
Beknopte informatie over leven en werk van honderd vooraanstaande wetenschappers uit de verschillende disciplines met name de natuurwetenschappen.