43 10 2379 https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/190678817752a1c36b5d41ffa2611481.png 9b6465ed7b420341058f83626dafabdb 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 Diversen Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-3166-4585-5 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 DIV0008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Machael Paterniti Title A name given to the resource Driving Mister Albert Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Little Brown & Co Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000 Description An account of the resource As the pathologist on duty at Princeton Hospital on April 17 1955, it was Thomas Harvey`s job to carry out the autopsy on Albert Einstein. It must have been a humbling experience, coming face to face with the world-famous physicist, whose theory of relativity was so complex it was fourteen years before it was understood enough to be verified. Who`s to say what inspired Harvey - greed or beneficence, pettiness or awe - but in an instance that was to shape his life forever, he cut the brain out of Einstein`s head and removed it for himself. Harvey chopped the brain into two hundred pieces, gave a third away, and kept the rest hidden in glass jars, floating in murky formaldehyde. Until 1997 when, aged eighty-four, Harvey decided the brain should be taken to Berkeley, to Albert Einstein`s grand-daughter Evelyn. It fell to the writer Michael Paterniti to drive him the four thousand miles from New Jersey to California Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/a057d3924a62dbf64aeac529a39e9c8f.png ddf6496e4201b26d2caaa8b9a5a16a5e 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 Diversen Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-2026-2610-0 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 DIV0010 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fred Hapgood Title A name given to the resource Up the infinite corridor Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available De Capo Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Description An account of the resource In Up the Infinite Corridor, Fred Hapgood explores the mental landscape of engineering a style of thought, a mode of operation, a particular form of creativity that increasingly defines the trajectory of modern life." "With the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as his point of reference, Hapgood traces the emergence of the profession from its mud-on-the-boots days preoccupied with canals and roads to its present absorption with cyber-space and micromachines. He also shows the evolution in how engineers are trained, from the apprentice working alongside the older man, to "build and test," to the postwar emergence of engineering science and its focus on developing general principles about the natural behavior of artifacts." "But it is when Hapgood explores a selection of research projects currently going on at the Institute that he actually takes us inside the process, bringing to life the struggle to design an artificial human knee that in every way mimics nature, the creation of all automated navigational system for cars, the attempt to infuse a piece of silicon with the capacity for vision, the construction of a human-powered airplane, and the development of robot mice for maze racing in international competition. In so doing, Hapgood gives us a glimpse into an alternate universe he calls "solution space," the black box of possibilities which the engineer moves inside, searching along its various pathways, confronting key to true innovation." "MIT is a rich culture that has always had its bizarre projects and its even more bizarre personalities, and Hapgood guides us through its history, the folkways and legends of undergraduate life, the twisted sense of humour emerging from the pressures and insecurities of a place in which everyone has the intellectual accelerator wired to the floor. The engineering sensibility that emerges is nothing like the dry "nuts and bolts" cliche. Rather it is an ethos based on reverence for "the fitness of things," the existential pleasure of connecting with the properties of nature. For as Hapgood points out, if scientists carry on a romance, engineers form a marriage and have progeny with nature, working within its confines day in and day out. The value system implied is one that sees our universe composed of elements whose behaviours matter to us intimately." "Hapgood's rich and insightful treatment shows engineering to be an enterprise surprisingly humane, even lyrical. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/6b944968d550e64ca954ebcdcb4689e6.png 38f15088f90a41cc731491808a79a74c 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 Diversen Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-7503-0275-3 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 DIV0012 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Partha Goose, Dipankar Home Title A name given to the resource Riddles in your teacup Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rupa publications india Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Description An account of the resource Fun with everyday scientific puzzles:<br /> Why is the night dark? How do bees buzz? Why do tea leaves collect in the centre of the cup after stirring? What makes a river meander? Why do people snore? Why does rain fall in drops? Natural phenomena and ordinary everyday things often contain surprises and puzzles when we try to understand them in terms of basic scientific principles. In this book, Partha Ghose and Dipankar Home have put together a wide range of puzzles and paradoxes from everyday life, also including riddles that have so far defied all explanation. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/b820d8d3f4d9574462554b0c5933b53e.png c1bf18b4e675e80e99d5e55228ec45c8 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 Diversen Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-7475-2066-5 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 DIV0012 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Michael Allaby Title A name given to the resource Facing the Future Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Bloomsburry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995 Description An account of the resource This work seeks to provide a positive picture of science, depicting it as a real hope for the future. Covering 100 topics such as global warming, nuclear power, food additives, pesticides in farming and environmental pollution, it attempts to alleviate fears surrounding these issues. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/819d5b6346b3013f7677b7d9b059abfb.png d3aacca7dcfe1aab7f462030ced118a7 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 Diversen Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 0-000-9180-2422-0 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 DIV0014 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Max Planck Title A name given to the resource Where is science going? Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available OxBow Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1981 Description An account of the resource Excerpt: What has led them to devote their lives to the pursuit of science? That question is difficult to answer and could never be answered in a simple categorical way. Personally I am inclined to agree with Schopenhauer in thinking that one of the strongest motives that lead people to give their lives to art and science is the urge to flee from everyday life, with its drab and deadly dullness, and thus to unshackle the chains of one's own transient desires, which supplant one another in an interminable succession so long as the mind is fixed on the horizon of daily environment.<br /> But to this negative motive a positive one must be added. Human nature always has tried to form for itself a simple and synoptic image of the surrounding world. In doing this it tries to construct a picture which will give some sort of tangible expression to what the human mind sees in nature. That is what the poet does. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/4c5ce83775aaac6c1b4090f9387dae97.png 0d282f39f80db885cad20199b2bca3e7 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 Diversen Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 978-0918024305 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 DIV0016 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Max Planck Title A name given to the resource My view of the world Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available OxBow Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1983 Description An account of the resource A Nobel prize winner, a great man and a great scientist, Erwin Schrödinger has made his mark in physics, but his eye scans a far wider horizon: here are two stimulating and discursive essays which summarize his philosophical views on the nature of the world. Schrodinger's world view, derived from the Indian writings of the Vedanta, is that there is only a single consciousness of which we are all different aspects. He admits that this view is mystical and metaphysical and incapable of logical deduction. But he also insists that this is true of the belief in an external world capable of influencing the mind and of being influenced by it. Schrodinger's world view leads naturally to a philosophy of reverence for life. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/575b2d238ba12a621b740a74a45175e6.png 1b7549a49eb2569bc4a0e3858ed747f6 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 Diversen Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 0-000-9180-2481-1 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 DIV0018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Werner Heisenberg Title A name given to the resource Across the Frontiers Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available OxBow Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Description An account of the resource Heisenberg’s non-technical writings on physics have always been notable for a strong sense of the history of the subject, and for a clear perception of the impact of modern discoveries on time-honoured  philosophical disputes.  The essays in this volume include appreciative assessments of the work of Einstein, Planck and Pauli and discussions of the structure of scientific theories, the role of abstraction in science, the function of natural laws and the ultimate nature of matter.  This work also provides Heisenberg’s sage reflections on the conditions for progress in science: a striking essay on Goethe’s attitude to science; a charming evocation of the city of Munich; and suggestive studies of the parallels and affinities between science, art and religion Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/fc8c88c1f8fc6e69c1ec1a2a77941732.png 7bf9c5dc58303474e213ab7f8cefe346 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 Diversen Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-7139-9363-9 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 DIV0020 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stephen Gould, Umberto Eco et al. Title A name given to the resource Conversations about the end of Time Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Penguin Putnam Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1999 Description An account of the resource Where does our fascination with the Apocalypse come from? Is time cyclical or linear? Can society survive without ideology? Can children be philosophers? Four great witnesses of our closing century examine our preoccupations at the end of this millennium, cast back to the fears and hopes of previous generations and examine the challenges to come. Mixing the humorous with the profound, they tackle a vast range of fundamental questions which have long taxed the minds not only of our greatest thinkers, but most of the rest of us too. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/76e261fb21634c1252b5d272faf321b5.png ec8ee60227ba97295ec54e3114fcfd63 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 Diversen Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-6708-4739-6 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 DIV0022 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Johnson Title A name given to the resource Fire in the Mind Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Viking Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1997 Description An account of the resource Science, Faith and the search for order.<br /> Concentrating on the Centre for the Study of Complex Systems in Los Alamos and the religious beliefs of surrounding communities, Journalist George Johnson explores the new science of complexity, which suggests the existence of a strong impulse towards order in nature, drawing parallels with the varied religious groups in the area and the source of the religious impulse in a need to deny chance and blind fate. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/3d7a878c78ef5b006b3507fb7177ef4b.png d236c5103aa6693891b6cadd77891137 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 Diversen Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-8018-7072-9 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 DIV0024 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alex Hebra Title A name given to the resource Measure for Measure Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available John Hopkins University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003 Description An account of the resource From the cubit used by Noah to build the ark to the angstrom in spectroscopy, units of measure have been integral to science and engineering. Throughout history, countless systems of measurement have been devised and then discarded as more precise and more logical systems have come along. While most of the world has adopted the metric system, the United States―with the curious exception of soda bottles―adheres to the imperial system, even though the country has officially been a metric nation since 1893, when Thomas Corwin Mendenhall declared metric prototypes the country's "fundamental standards of length and mass." The convenience of the base-ten metric system is undeniable, and so are the costs associated with not converting to metric. Yet, Americans still cling to inches, quarts, and ounces. Clearly, there is more to measurement than logic.<br /> In <em>Measure for Measure</em>, Alex Hebra offers a delightfully engaging and instructive history of measurement systems from ancient times to the present, exploring how and why such units as the stadium, the span, and the parsec first came about. Tracing civilization's various efforts to calculate distance, volume, mass, energy, and time, he explains how units of measurement are applied in such fields as mechanical engineering, physics, optics, and astronomy. In particular, Hebra focuses on the development of the metric system, arguing that even the United States will eventually join the worldwide metric community. Deeply informed and imaginatively told, <em>Measure for Measure</em> chronicles humanity's imperfect search for the perfect system with which to quantify reality. Language A language of the resource Engels