157 10 2379 https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/17d0212eaa871ad3da972d7b043104aa.jpg 6de2263d3b2d342b811da069ccae0fb7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geschiedenis Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9789400405561 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GES1049 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hugh Aldersey-Williams Title A name given to the resource Een eeuw van licht Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available uitgeverij Thomas RAP Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Description An account of the resource 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 zijn verhandelingen over de werking van licht en van zwaartekracht, zette hij zijn telescopen op en speculeerde hij over leven op andere planeten. Christiaan Huygens was de grootste wetenschapper in het Europa van de zeventiende eeuw. Hij was een maker, een waarnemer en een denker en hij leverde een cruciale bijdrage aan de astronomie, optica en mechanica. Hij legde de grondslagen voor de moderne wetenschap en was in zijn theorieën zijn tijd en tijdgenoten ver vooruit. De Britse auteur en journalist Hugh Aldersey-Williams vertelt in Een eeuw van licht het verhaal van een van Nederlands belangrijkste maar onderschatte wetenschappers. Met die biografie neemt hij de lezer mee op reis door Huygens tijd en reconstrueert aan de hand van het werk van Huygens het ontstaan van de moderne wetenschap in Europa. Language A language of the resource Nederlands https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/a4ae4012b067ef20b385b43e0ec2cfc7.png 136ff9b2a5e9051b0d55f8ab81b9509b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geschiedenis Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-781-8570-2571-2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GES1047 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dava Sobel Title A name given to the resource Longitude Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Fourth Estate Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998 Description An account of the resource The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/90687abc14e91e1521523dacd18696c3.png 0fac57cf8d2001a2d204fb2d25624a76 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geschiedenis Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-3673-6272-0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GES1045 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Raymond Flood, Tony Mann, May Croarken ed. Title A name given to the resource Mathematics at the meridian Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available CRC Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Description An account of the resource 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 in the 18th century organised the work of computing tables for the Nautical Almanac, anticipating later methods used in safety-critical computing systems. The 19th century saw influential critiques of Charles Babbage’s mechanical calculating engines, and in the 20th century Leslie Comrie and others pioneered the automation of computation. The arrival of the Royal Naval College in 1873 and the University of Greenwich in 1999 has brought more mathematicians and different kinds of mathematics to Greenwich. In the 21st century computational mathematics has found many new applications. This book presents an account of the mathematicians who worked at Greenwich and their achievements. Features • A scholarly but accessible history of mathematics at Greenwich, from the seventeenth century to the present day, with each chapter written by an expert in the field • The book will appeal to astronomical and naval historians as well as historians of mathematics and scientific computing. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/9a15984214b33541e6944935eb4d4b44.png be41ec9da020a3ad2f9af56d167afeaa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geschiedenis Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-7802-4650-1725-2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GES1043 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Larry D. Ferreiro Title A name given to the resource Measure of the earth Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Basic Books Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011 Description An account of the resource In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world’s first international, cooperative scientific expedition. Intent on making precise astronomical measurements at the Equator, they were poised to resolve one of mankind’s oldest mysteries: the true shape of the Earth. A thrilling tale of adventure, political history, and scientific discovery, Measure of the Earth recounts the greatest scientific expedition of the Enlightenment through the eyes of the men who completed it—pioneers who overcame tremendous adversity to traverse the towering Andes Mountains in order to discern the Earth’s shape. In the process they also opened the eyes of Europe to the richness of South America and paved the way for scientific cooperation on a global scale. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/bca7272983a23ca941a660776644df04.png e50cf78486bd26653780aa51ef0b17ed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geschiedenis Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-1951-1447-8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GES1041 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bernard Pullman Title A name given to the resource The atom in the history of human thought Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Oxford University Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998 Description An account of the resource The idea of the atom--the ultimate essence of physical reality, indivisible and eternal--has been the focus of a quest that has engaged humanity for 2,500 years. That quest is captured in The Atom in the History of Human Thought. Here is a panoramic intellectual history that begins in ancient Greece, ranges across the entire span of Western philosophy and science, and ends with the first direct visual proof of the atom's existence, just ten years ago. Bernard Pullman deftly captures the richness and depth of this remarkable debate, giving us not only the ideas of philosophers, church leaders, and scientists, but also the historical and social context from which these thoughts evolved. We have marvellous accounts of the work of such thinkers as Plato and Aristotle, Aquinas and Maimonides, Galileo and Descartes, Newton and Einstein--indeed, virtually every major philosopher of Western civilization, with excursions into the Hindu and Arab world--all presented against the backdrop of history. But perhaps most fascinating is the gradual shift in the book from a philosophical and religious perspective to a scientific perspective, especially in the 19th century, as science begins to dominate how humanity understands the world. Thus a book that begins with pre-Socratic philosophers such as Democritus and Empedocles ends with nuclear physicists such as Werner Heisenberg and Richard Feynman, and with a very different world view. Ably translated by Axel Reisinger, this is a vibrant look at humanity's search to understand the ultimate nature of physical reality, a quest that has spanned the entire course of Western civilization. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/4f595178fbd3daa3e4d50d686a76d7fa.png 4c35e60b0050057eb7643d81faeab123 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geschiedenis Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-0992-2391-7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GES1039 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Donald Wilcox Title A name given to the resource The measure of times past Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Chicago Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1987 Description An account of the resource In this extraordinary work, Donald J. Wilcox seeks to discover an approach to narrative and history consistent with the discontinuous, relative time of the twentieth century. He shows how our B.C./A.D. system, intimately connected to Newtonian concepts of continuous, objective, and absolute time, has affected our conception and experience of the past. He demonstrates absolute time's centrality to modern historical methodologies and the problems it has created in the selection and interpretation of facts. Inspired by contemporary fiction and Einsteinian concepts of relativity, he concludes his analysis with a comparison of our system with earlier, pre-Newtonian time schemes to create a radical new critique of historical objectivity. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/01a398a046b162e1922bfbd2323ff094.png 3c67a0c403dba15a2393b73321e6aab2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geschiedenis Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-0992-2391-7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GES1037 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Steven Weinberg Title A name given to the resource Dreams of a final theory Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Vintage Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Description An account of the resource 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 and clarity, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg retraces the steps that have led modern scientists from relativity theory and quantum mechanics to the notion of superstrings and the idea that our universe may coexist with others. Along the way, he voices the questions that are always present: Why does each explanation of the way nature works point to other, deeper explanations? Why are the best theories not only logical but beautiful? And what implications will a final theory have for our philosophy and religious faith? Intellectually daring, rich in anecdote and aphorism, Dreams of a Final Theory launches us into a new cosmos and helps us make sense of what we find there. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/a698a6048ee2021f0a37938d0e738f1e.png cdb43b26c6a511984ad800a5572233c4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geschiedenis Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-8027-1415-2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GES1035 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Owen Gingerich Title A name given to the resource The book that nobody read Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Walker Books Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2004 Description An account of the resource 1543 saw the publication of one of the most significant scientific works ever written: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), in which Nicolaus Copernicus presented a radically different structure of the cosmos by placing the sun, and not the earth, at the centre of the universe. But did anyone take notice? Harvard astrophysicist Owen Gingerich was intrigued by the bold claim made by Arthur Koestler in his bestselling The Sleepwalkers that sixteenth-century Europe paid little attention to the groundbreaking, but dense, masterpiece. Gingerich embarked on a thirty-year odyssey to examine every extant copy to prove Koestler wrong... Logging thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of miles Gingerich uncovered a treasure trove of material on the life of a book and the evolution of an idea. His quest led him to copies once owned by saints, heretics, and scallywags, by musicians and movie stars; some easily accessible, others almost lost to time, politics and the black market. Part biography of a book and a man, part bibliographic and bibliophilic quest, Gingerich's The Book Nobody Read is an utterly captivating piece of writing, a testament to the power both of books and the love of books. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/e7f72af94d9ab9934bd06c78e360d977.png 04d15daf5e63ee1291218d5b77595857 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geschiedenis Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-3879-4700-6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GES1033 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jeremy Bernstein Title A name given to the resource A theory for everything Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Copernicus Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1996 Description An account of the resource One of America's best-known essayists on science, physicist Jeremy Bernstein, here presents his latest collection of work. Drawn from over ten years of writing for magazines such as The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Scientific American, these essays provide illuminating accounts of the lives of some of this century's most important scientists and the value of their work. Bernstein's fans who remember these pieces from their original publication will be pleased to see that many that had to be cut - sometimes drastically - to fit magazine space requirements are here restored to their original length. Bernstein has added introductions and postscripts to many essays as well. In all, this collection contains a great deal of new and unpublished material. An added bonus is Bernstein's four pieces of published fiction - three of which are hilarious send-ups of academic and sexual politics at a small and (we hope) imaginary college. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/d7f575435b524006b2c1d655fbbb8aec.png d6bc3194a7056d317f3a772e52ef98d0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geschiedenis Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-4650-1575-7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GES1031 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Matter & John Boslough Title A name given to the resource The very first light Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Basic Books Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1997 Description An account of the resource 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 Background Explorer (COBE) projects originator and project scientist, John Mather, and science writer John Boslough provide the intimate and startling details of how big science is done today. They tell of the discovery of the cosmic background radiation and of the fifteen-year struggle to design, build, and launch the COBE satellite, including the unwelcome controversy when one team member breached the projects publication policy and stepped into the limelight alone. In 1990 and 1992, a NASA-led team of scientists from the COBE project changed the way we view the universe. They showed that the microwave radiation that fills the universe must have come from the Big Bang itself effectively proving this theory beyond any doubt. It was one of the greatest scientific findings of our generation, perhaps of all time. In this no-holds-barred account, COBEs originator and Project Scientist, John Mather, and science writer John Boslough provide the intimate and startling details of how big science is done today. They tell of the discovery of the cosmic background radiation and of the fifteen-year struggle to design, build and launch the COBE satellite, including the unwelcome controversy when one team member breached the projects publication policy and stepped into the limelight alone. The Very First Light presents a rarely seen inside account of the world of big science, where cooperation and competition battle for supremacy. At the height of the project, more than 1,500 scientists, engineers, designers, and support staff worked on the spacecraft. The project was especially difficult because two of the three instruments were cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero. When the Challenger exploded in 1986, the shuttle program was grounded indefinitely, leaving the COBE with no route to space. The last available Delta rocket was approved for the mission, but now the team had to slash the spacecrafts five-ton weight in half. The story of this feat provides a remarkable behind-the-scenes look into the high-stakes, frenetic world of a big science project and NASA itself. The Very First Light is a portrait of science no serious reader will want to miss. Language A language of the resource Engels