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Titel Dijksterhuis: een biografie Auteur Klaas van Berkel Uitgever Bert Bakker, 1996 Oorspronkelijk uit de University of Michigan Gedigitaliseerd 30 juli 2009 ISBN 9035116941, 9789035116948 Lengte 639 pagina's

This first full-length biography of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac offers a comprehensive account of his physics in its historical context, including less known areas such as cosmology and classical electron theory. It is based extensively on unpublished…

This is the story of a grand scientific quest: the quest for a unifying theory of nature--one that can explain forces as different as the cohesion inside the atom and the gravitational tug between the sun and the earth. Writing with dazzling elegance…

Driving Force unfolds the long and colourful history of magnets: how they guided (or misguided) Columbus; mesmerized eighteenth-century Paris but failed to fool Benjamin Franklin; lifted AC power over its rival, DC, despite all the animals, one human…

Cet ouvrage d'histoire des idées et de philosophie des sciences rassemble plusieurs études dont le point commun est d'analyser les conséquences majeures de la découverte scientifique de l'infini. Ainsi, Alexandre Koyré montre comment la révolution…

E = mc2' -de biografie van de formule die de wereld veranderde, door David Bodanis, is een aanstekelijk verhaal waarin mensen van vlees en bloed de hoofdrol spelen. Bodanis maakt verhelderende uitstapjes naar de kunstgeschiedenis en de psychologie en…

A biography of the world’s most famous equation. Bodanis begins by devoting chapters to each of the equation's letters and symbols, introducing the science and scientists forming the backdrop to Einstein's discovery—from Ole Roemer's revelation that…

The earliest investigations that can be called scientific are concerned with the sky: they are the beginnings of astronomy. Many early civilizations produced astronomical texts, and several cultures that left no written records left monuments and…

Erwin Schrödinger is one of the greatest figures of theoretical physics, but there is another side to the man: not only did his work revolutionize physics, it also radically changed the foundations of our modern worldview, modern biology, philosophy…

Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) woonde zijn laatste jaren in de prachtige villa Hofwijck, gebouwd door zijn vader – de dichter en diplomaat Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) – een paar kilometer ten zuidoosten van Den Haag. In dat huis voltooide hij…