Télécharger le livre :  The Names of Science
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The history of science is echoed in the development of its language and the names chosen for its technical terms.The Names of Science examines in detail how, over time, new words have entered the scientific lexicon and how some of them, but far from all, have survived...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-07-12

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Télécharger le livre :  Niels Bohr
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Niels Bohr’s atomic theory of 1913 is one of the absolute highlights in the history of modern science. It was only with this work that physicists realized that quantum theory is an essential ingredient in atomic physics, and it was also only with this work that...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2022-06-15
Collection : Classic Texts in the Sciences
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology
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Scientific and popular literature on modern cosmology is very extensive; however, scholarly works on the historical development of cosmology are few and scattered. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-03-06

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Télécharger le livre :  From Transuranic to Superheavy Elements
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The story of superheavy elements  - those at the very end of the periodic table  - is not well known outside the community of heavy-ion physicists and nuclear chemists. But it is a most interesting story which deserves to be known also to historians,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-02-12
Collection : SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
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Télécharger le livre :  Varying Gravity
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The main focus of this book is on the interconnection of two unorthodox scientific ideas, the varying-gravity hypothesis and the expanding-earth hypothesis. As such, it provides a fascinating insight into a nearly forgotten chapter in both the history of cosmology and...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2016-02-05
Collection : Science Networks. Historical Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Early Responses to the Periodic System
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The reception of the periodic system of elements has received little attention among scientists and historians alike. While many historians have studied Mendeleev's discovery of the periodic system, few have analyzed the ways in which the scientific community perceived...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-01-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Masters of the Universe
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How did our modern picture of the universe come into being? Masters of the Universe tells this fascinating story in an unusual format that blends factual and fictional elements. It is based on a series of interviews that a fictional person conducted with leading...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-11-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Masters of the Universe
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How did our modern picture of the universe come into being? Masters of the Universe tells this fascinating story in an unusual format that blends factual and fictional elements. It is based on a series of interviews that a fictional person conducted with leading...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-11-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom
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Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom is the first book that focuses in detail on the birth and development of Bohr's atomic theory and gives a comprehensive picture of it. At the same time it offers new insight into Bohr's peculiar way of thinking, what Einstein once called...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-05-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom
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Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom is the first book that focuses in detail on the birth and development of Bohr's atomic theory and gives a comprehensive picture of it. At the same time it offers new insight into Bohr's peculiar way of thinking, what Einstein once called...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-05-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Higher Speculations
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Throughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of everything': highly ambitious attempts to understand nature in its totality. This account presents these theories in their historical contexts, from little-known hypotheses from the past to modern...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-01-07

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