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10 produkter
Prisons of Light - Black Holes
Häftad, 1998
618 kr
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What is a black hole? Could we survive a visit to one ... perhaps even venture inside? Have we yet discovered any real black holes? And what do black holes teach us about the mysteries of our Universe? These are just a few of the tantalizing questions examined in this tour-de-force, jargon-free …
Stephen Hawking
A Life Well Lived
E-bok, 2011
136 kr
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In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given two years to live. Defying all the odds, he died in March 2018 at age seventy-six as the most celebrated scientist in the world. This carefully researched and updated biography and tribute gives a rich picture of Hawking's remarkable life - his childhood, the …
Measuring the Universe
The Historical Quest to Quantify Space
E-bok, 2013
167 kr
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Suppose you and I still wondered whether all of the pinpoints of light in the night sky are the same distance from us. Suppose none of our contemporaries could tell us whether the Sun orbits the Earth, or vice versa, or even how large the Earth is. Suppose no one had guessed there are mathematical …
Tycho and Kepler
The Unlikely Partnership that Forever Changed our Understanding of the Heavens
E-bok, 2013
167 kr
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The extraordinary, unlikely tale of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler and their enormous contribution to astronomy and understanding of the cosmos is one of the strangest stories in the history of science.Kepler was a poor, devoutly religious teacher with a genius for mathematics. Brahe was an …
Prisons of Light
Black Holes
E-bok, 2013
170 kr
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What is a black hole? Could we survive a visit to one? Perhaps even venture inside? What would we find? Have we yet discovered any real black holes? And what do black holes teach us about what physicist John Archibald Wheeler called “the deep, happy, mysteries of the universe”?These are just a few …
Stephen Hawking
A Life Well Lived
Häftad, 2019
176 kr
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In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given two years to live. Defying all the odds, he died in March 2018 at age seventy-six as the most celebrated scientist in the world. This carefully researched and updated biography and tribute gives a rich picture of Hawking's remarkable life - his childhood, the …
Stephen Hawking
Remarkable Lives
Häftad, 2019
66 kr
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Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 and was expected to live for only another two years. He went on to write books and deliver public lectures right up until his death at the age of 76 in 2018. Hawking achieved commercial success with several works of popular …
Stephen Hawking
E-bok, 2015
138 kr
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POIKKEUKSELLISEN AJATTELIJAN POIKKEUKSELLINEN ELÄMÄ "Hei. Nimeni on Stephen Hawking. Olen fyysikko, kosmologi ja aikamoinen uneksija. Vaikka en pystykään liikkumaan ja joudun puhumaan tietokoneeni välityksellä, omassa mielessäni olen vapaa." Stephen Hawking on aikamme kenties kuuluisin fyysikko, …
Fire in the Equations
Science Religion & Search for God
Häftad, 2004
217 kr
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“ In this beautifully and intelligently written book, Ferguson not only reports on some of the intellectual tremors jolting the world of thinking women and men, but also considers the basic questions with penetrating analysis, yet at a very readable level. . . . An excellent book.” -ChoiceHeralded …
