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Beams The Story of Particle Accelerators and the Science They Discover
This book describes and explains the world of particle accelerators and the physics they study. The presentation is non-technical (E=mc2is the only...
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The Quizzer’s Guide to the Cosmos 500 Questions About the Universe (with Answers)
Have you ever gazed up at the night sky and wondered how many stars you can see? Whether the universe is infinite? Or, more prosaically, what the...
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Athanasius Kircher, the Mysteries of the Geocosmos, Magnetism, and the Universe
Athanasius Kircher, the eminent 17th-century German Jesuit professor of mathematics at the Roman College emerges as a captivating figure within the...
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How Energy Considerations Have Shaped Our Fundamental Modern Theories of Physics Theory and Key Historical Moments
At long last, with sufficient technical details, emphasizing key historical moments, a book that develops allof fundamental modern theoretical...
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Italian Contributions to Planetary Astronomy From the Discovery of Ceres to Pluto's Orbit
This book describes the most important contributions of Italian astronomers to the development of planetary astronomy during the nineteenth century...
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Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica 1644–2024 Text, Transcription, Commentaries and Selected Essays as New Historical Insights
Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients' mathematical methods. Celebrating Evangelista Torricelli's monumental Oper...
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A Whirlwind History of the Universe and Mankind From the Big Bang to the Higgs Boson
This book is an essential read for everyone who is curious about how we humans came to exist and interested in understanding the science and social...
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Primes and Particles Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Physics
Many philosophers, physicists, and mathematicians have wondered about the remarkable relationship between mathematics with its abstract, pure,...
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A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World
This open access book is about causal thinking and the use of causal language, with a focus on introducing philosophical ideas about causation to...
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Portrait of Young Gödel Education, First Steps in Logic, the Problem of Completeness
In the summer of 1928, Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) embarked on his logical journey that would bring him world fame in a mere three years. By early 1929,...
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The Renaissance of Mechanics Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism
This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its...
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The Magic of Living Consciousness The Wonders of the Mundane
This book demystifies the notion of living consciousness and aims to show that, far from being a mere accompaniment to brain functions, living...
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Rules and Exceptions in Biology: from Fundamental Concepts to Applications
This is the first book to cover and explore the rules and exceptions in biology. It presents past and current perspectives on the subject and...
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The Origins of the Idea of Scientific Progress Bernard de Fontenelle and His Contemporaries
This volume offers a new interpretation of the genesis of the idea of scientific progress in early modern science and philosophy. The interpretation...
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Dispositional Reality A Novel Approach to Power Ontology and Metaphysics
Dispositionalism, perhaps the most popular variant of non-Humean metaphysics, submits that dispositions, powers, or capacities, are part of the...
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Francis Bacon’s Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge
The book sets an ambitious goal. It devises a new account of scientific methodology that makes it possible to explain how scientists manage, at least...
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On the Emergence of Time and Space in Closed Quantum Systems
Time, space and entanglement are the main characters in this book. Their nature is still a great mystery in physics and we study here the possibility...
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'The Bell Curve' in Perspective Race, Meritocracy, Inequality and Politics
This open access book examines the implications of The Bell Curvefor the social, economic, and political developments of the early 21st century....
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StarWords The Celestial Roots of Modern Language
Unbeknownst to many, our modern language contains countless words that were inspired by human observations of the cosmos. We now use words like...
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Descartes on Mathematics, Method and Motion On the Role of Cartesian Physics in the Scientific Revolution
This book argues that Descartes’ physics was a milestone on the road to modern mathematical physics. After Newton introduced a completely different...
