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19 produkter
Making Physics
A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972
Häftad, 2000
358 kr
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From Nobel Prize-winning work in atomic physics to community concerns over radiation leaks, Brookhaven National Laboratory's ups and downs track the changing fortunes of "big science" in the United States since World War II. But Brookhaven is also unique; it was the first major national laboratory …
Play of Nature
Experimentation As Performance
Inbunden, 1993
616 kr
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"Crease's brilliantly exploited theatrical analogy places scientific theorizing back into the wider context of experimental inquiry." —Robert C. ScharffCrease attacks the "mystical" account of experimentation embraced by the positivist and Kantian varieties of philosophy of science, according to …
Workshop and the World
What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority
Inbunden, 2019
260 kr
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Robert P. Crease looks at questions about when a scientific discovery becomes accepted fact, who decides this and how citizens should interact with the scientific process. He answers by introducing the world’s greatest thinkers and explaining how they shaped scientific progress.At a time when the …
Great Equations
Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
Häftad, 2010
170 kr
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While we may be familiar with some of science’s greatest equations, we may not know that each and every equation emerged not in "Eureka!" moments but in years of cultural developments and scientific knowledge. With vignettes full of humor, drama, and eccentricity, philosopher and science historian …
World in the Balance
The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement
Häftad, 2012
183 kr
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Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable network of weights and measures. But achieving such a network was anything but easy, as Robert P. Crease, physicist and philosopher, demonstrates in this endlessly fascinating, always entertaining look at just how this international system …
Quantum Moment
How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
Av Robert P. Crease, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber
Häftad, 2015
308 kr
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Time travel, parallel worlds, random behaviour: the language and the imagery of quantum mechanics are ubiquitous, yet the science—and its journey into everyday language—still confounds us. Robert P. Crease and Alfred Scharff Goldhaber tell how a controversial idea from an obscure branch of optics …
Science Policy Up Close
Av John H. Marburger III, Robert P. Crease
Inbunden, 2015
418 kr
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In a career that included tenures as president of Stony Brook University, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, and science advisor to President George W. Bush, John Marburger (1941–2011) found himself on the front line of battles that pulled science ever deeper into the political arena. From …
Philosophy of Physics
A new introduction
Inbunden, 2023
465 kr
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This book is about the ways that philosophers inquire into science. They do so with several different approaches, which this book parses into three. One analyzes the results of inquiry, another the process of inquiry, and still another inquiring, or what it means to be an inquirer. Each approach …
Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences
Inbunden, 1997
1084 kr
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philosophers with both hermeneutic-phenomenological and scientific back- grounds (such as Heelan, Ihde, Theodore Kisiel, Joseph Kockelmans) have begun to read the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and others as also entailing a positive re-evaluation of practices of the natural sciences. A …
Second Creation
Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
Av Robert P Crease, Charles C Mann
Häftad, 1996
504 kr
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The Second Creation is a dramatic--and human--chronicle of scientific investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Mann take the reader on a fascinating journey in search of "unification" (a description of how matter behaves that can apply equally to everything) with …
Quantum Moment
How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
Av Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, Robert P. Crease
Ljudbok, 2014
328 kr
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The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream The discovery of the quantum—the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities—planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination. …
Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences
Häftad, 2012
1098 kr
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philosophers with both hermeneutic-phenomenological and scientific back- grounds (such as Heelan, Ihde, Theodore Kisiel, Joseph Kockelmans) have begun to read the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and others as also entailing a positive re-evaluation of practices of the natural sciences. A …
BETWEEN SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: INSTITUTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF MATERIALS RESEARCH
Av Hessenbruch Arne, Robert P Crease
Inbunden, 2024
2812 kr
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Materials science institutions have always been crucial to the development of materials research. Even before materials science emerged as a discipline in the 20th century, these institutions existed in various forms. They provided specialized facilities for research, educated new generations of …
Quantum Moment
How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
Av Robert P. Crease, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber
Inbunden, 2014
262 kr
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Time travel, parallel worlds, random behaviour: the language and the imagery of quantum mechanics are ubiquitous, yet the science—and its journey into everyday language—still confounds us. Robert P. Crease and Alfred Scharff Goldhaber tell how a controversial idea from an obscure branch of optics …
