Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind ThemOxford University Press, 16 apr 2008 - 528 pagine Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion--whose ramifications have profoundly altered our everyday lives and our understanding of the universe. Throughout this fascinating book, Clifford Pickover invites us to share in the amazing adventures of brilliant, quirky, and passionate people after whom these laws are named. These lawgivers turn out to be a fascinating, diverse, and sometimes eccentric group of people. Many were extremely versatile polymaths--human dynamos with a seemingly infinite supply of curiosity and energy and who worked in many different areas in science. Others had non-conventional educations and displayed their unusual talents from an early age. Some experienced resistance to their ideas, causing significant personal anguish. Pickover examines more than 40 great laws, providing brief and cogent introductions to the science behind the laws as well as engaging biographies of such scientists as Newton, Faraday, Ohm, Curie, and Planck. Throughout, he includes fascinating, little-known tidbits relating to the law or lawgiver, and he provides cross-references to other laws or equations mentioned in the book. For several entries, he includes simple numerical examples and solved problems so that readers can have a hands-on understanding of the application of the law. A sweeping survey of scientific discovery as well as an intriguing portrait gallery of some of the greatest minds in history, this superb volume will engage everyone interested in science and the physical world or in the dazzling creativity of these brilliant thinkers. |
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Pagina xii
... Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion, 1609 and 1618 52 Snell's Law of Refraction, 1621 65 Hooke's Law of Elasticity, 1660 74 Boyle's Gas Law, 1662 85 Newton's Laws of Motion, Gravitation, and Cooling, 1687 and 1701 93 1700–1800 Bernoulli's ...
... Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion, 1609 and 1618 52 Snell's Law of Refraction, 1621 65 Hooke's Law of Elasticity, 1660 74 Boyle's Gas Law, 1662 85 Newton's Laws of Motion, Gravitation, and Cooling, 1687 and 1701 93 1700–1800 Bernoulli's ...
Pagina 6
... Kepler (1571–1630) had to defend his mother from accusations of witchcraft. I discuss how German mathematical physicist Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888) was wounded while leading a student ambulance core in the Franco-Prussian War, which ...
... Kepler (1571–1630) had to defend his mother from accusations of witchcraft. I discuss how German mathematical physicist Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888) was wounded while leading a student ambulance core in the Franco-Prussian War, which ...
Pagina 7
... Kepler was also motivated by his faith in God. He, too, sought to discover God's plan for the universe and to read the mind of God. For Kepler, mathematics was the language of God. Because humans were made in the image of God, humans ...
... Kepler was also motivated by his faith in God. He, too, sought to discover God's plan for the universe and to read the mind of God. For Kepler, mathematics was the language of God. Because humans were made in the image of God, humans ...
Pagina 10
... Kepler was bow-legged, often afflicted with large boils, and suffered from poor vision. British chemist William Henry's (1775–1836) childhood injury caused him incredible pain throughout his life, and he eventually killed himself. A ...
... Kepler was bow-legged, often afflicted with large boils, and suffered from poor vision. British chemist William Henry's (1775–1836) childhood injury caused him incredible pain throughout his life, and he eventually killed himself. A ...
Pagina 11
... Kepler even wrote a science-fiction tale, Somnium, in which the inhabitants of the Moon resembled large serpents with a spongy, porous skin. A number of the “lawgivers of reality” in this book grew up in families that almost seemed to ...
... Kepler even wrote a science-fiction tale, Somnium, in which the inhabitants of the Moon resembled large serpents with a spongy, porous skin. A number of the “lawgivers of reality” in this book grew up in families that almost seemed to ...
Sommario
1 | |
39 | |
17001800 | 123 |
18001900 | 171 |
1900 AND BEYOND | 407 |
THE GREAT CONTENDERS | 454 |
FINAL COMMENTS ON THE BEAUTY OF MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE | 485 |
References | 501 |
About the Author | 505 |
Index | 508 |
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