Galileo's Commandment: 2,500 Years of Great Science WritingEdmund Blair Bolles Macmillan, 18. okt 1999 - 512 pages Bolles has scoured the literature of science to build a treasury that is accessible and riveting, and therefore appealing to readers unfamiliar with science, yet erudite enough for the scientifically initiated to enjoy. |
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... Relativity ( 1916 ) 409 ᏢᎪᎡᎢ ᎢᎻᎡᎬᎬ Style in the Scientific Imagination CHAPTER TEN 413 " It Is in Some Fashion a History " 415 Galileo Galilei : The Speed of Falling Bodies ( 1638 ) 415 Lucretius : The Persistence of Atoms ( 60 ...
... Relativity ( 1916 ) 409 ᏢᎪᎡᎢ ᎢᎻᎡᎬᎬ Style in the Scientific Imagination CHAPTER TEN 413 " It Is in Some Fashion a History " 415 Galileo Galilei : The Speed of Falling Bodies ( 1638 ) 415 Lucretius : The Persistence of Atoms ( 60 ...
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... Relativity 1923 Marie Curie : Obtaining Radium 1924 1925 I. P. Pavlov : The Atoms of Activity Bertrand Russell : What Einstein Did Alfred Wallace : On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type Thomas H ...
... Relativity 1923 Marie Curie : Obtaining Radium 1924 1925 I. P. Pavlov : The Atoms of Activity Bertrand Russell : What Einstein Did Alfred Wallace : On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type Thomas H ...
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... Relativity ( 1916 ) Richard Feynman : The Distinction of Past and Future ( 1965 ) Galileo Galilei : The Speed of Falling Bodies ( 1638 ) Werner Heisenberg : Atomic Physics and Causal Law ( 1958 ) Hermann von Helmholtz : The Conservation ...
... Relativity ( 1916 ) Richard Feynman : The Distinction of Past and Future ( 1965 ) Galileo Galilei : The Speed of Falling Bodies ( 1638 ) Werner Heisenberg : Atomic Physics and Causal Law ( 1958 ) Hermann von Helmholtz : The Conservation ...
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... relativity has been justified , " a more boastful man might have written " after my special principle of relativity was proved right . " The cynic may sus- pect a false humility . We all know who it was that introduced and jus- tified ...
... relativity has been justified , " a more boastful man might have written " after my special principle of relativity was proved right . " The cynic may sus- pect a false humility . We all know who it was that introduced and jus- tified ...
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Contents
V | 5 |
IX | 16 |
X | 22 |
XII | 29 |
XIII | 41 |
XVII | 49 |
XVIII | 53 |
XX | 63 |
LVII | 250 |
LVIII | 257 |
LIX | 267 |
LXI | 274 |
LXIII | 284 |
LXV | 290 |
LXVII | 301 |
LXIX | 306 |
XXI | 71 |
XXIV | 80 |
XXV | 88 |
XXVI | 93 |
XXIX | 97 |
XXX | 105 |
XXXI | 112 |
XXXIII | 117 |
XXXV | 125 |
XXXVII | 129 |
XXXVIII | 133 |
XXXIX | 143 |
XL | 155 |
XLI | 161 |
XLIII | 167 |
XLV | 177 |
XLVI | 184 |
XLVII | 193 |
XLVIII | 198 |
L | 206 |
LI | 214 |
LII | 218 |
LIII | 226 |
LIV | 239 |
LV | 245 |
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