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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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MINT für Geisteswissenschaftler Naturwissenschaften für Geisteswissenschaftler
Der Beginn von Naturwissenschaft und Geisteswissenschaft in der Antike war gemeinsam, aber die Naturwissenschaft hatte sich bis zum Ende des 19....
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Optimierung Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch
Dieses interdisziplinäre Handbuch rekonstruiert Optimierung als ein Phänomen, das konstitutiv in aktuelle Entwicklungen der Gegenwart eingeschrieben...
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Die Arbeit mit dem Radium Radioaktivitätsforschung 1896 -1914
Dieses Buch macht die überraschende Vielfalt der Personen und Tätigkeiten in der Radioaktivitätsforschung sichtbar. Dabei wird der Begriff der...
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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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Von einem, der auszog, das Staunen zu lernen Große Figuren und großartige Meilensteine in der Geschichte der Wissenschaften
„Wer sich nicht mehr wundern und nicht mehr staunen kann, der ist sozusagen tot und sein Auge erloschen“, hat Albert Einstein einmal geschrieben, und...
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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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Wider die Borniertheit und den Chauvinismus – mit Paul K. Feyerabend durch absurde Zeiten
Anlässlich seines 100. Geburtstages wird an Paul K. Feyerabend erinnert; es werden seine Ideen diskutiert und es wird gefragt, inwieweit diese...
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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...
