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Birth of a New Physics
Häftad, 1985
169 kr
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These are notions so basic to our view of life that we take them for granted. But in the seventeenth century they were revolutionary, heretical, even dangerous to the men who formed them. Culture, religion, and science had intertwined over the centuries to create a world view based on a stationary …
Science and the Founding Fathers
Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison
Häftad, 1997
334 kr
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Thomas Jefferson was the only president who could read and understand Newton's Principia. Benjamin Franklin is credited with establishing the science of electricity. John Adams had the finest education in science that the new country could provide, including "Pnewmaticks, Hydrostaticks, Mechanicks, …
Triumph of Numbers
How Counting Shaped Modern Life
Häftad, 2006
252 kr
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The great historian of science I. B. Cohen explores how numbers have come to assume a leading role in science, in the operations and structure of government, in marketing, and in many other aspects of daily life. Consulting and collecting numbers has been a feature of human affairs since …
Cambridge Companion to Newton
Av George E. Smith, I. Bernard Cohen
E-bok, 2002
489 kr
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Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and the natural sciences. In this volume a team of distinguished contributors examine all the main aspects of Newton''s thought, …
The Newtonian Revolution
Häftad, 1983
499 kr
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This volume presents Professor Cohen's original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science and set Newtonian science as the model for the highest level of achievement in other branches of science. It shows that Newton developed a special kind of relation between …
Benjamin Franklin's Science
Häftad, 1996
419 kr
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Benjamin Franklin is well known to most of us, yet his fundamental and wide-ranging contributions to science are still not adequately understood. Until now he has usually been incorrectly regarded as a practical inventor and tinkerer rather than a scientific thinker. He was elected to membership in …
Revolution in Science
Häftad, 1987
406 kr
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Only a scholar as rich in learning as I. Bernard Cohen could do justice to a theme so subtle and yet so grand. Spanning five centuries and virtually all of scientific endeavor, Revolution in Science traces the nuances that differentiate both scientific revolutions and human perceptions of them, …
Cambridge Companion to Newton
Av George E. Smith, I. Bernard Cohen
E-bok, 2002
489 kr
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Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and the natural sciences. In this volume a team of distinguished contributors examine all the main aspects of Newton''s thought, …
Makin' Numbers
Howard Aiken and the Computer
Av I. Bernard Cohen, Gregory W. Welch
Häftad, 1999
250 kr
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