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  • Concepts of Simultaneity

    From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond

    by Max Jammer ...
    Max Jammer's Concepts of Simultaneity presents a comprehensive, accessible account of the historical development of an important and controversial concept—which played a critical role in initiating modern theoretical physics—from the days of Egyptian hieroglyphs through to Einstein's work in 1905, and beyond.Beginning with the use of the concept of simultaneity in ancient Egypt and in the Bible, ... Read more

    $50.79 USD

  • Einstein and Religion

    Physics and Theology

    by Max Jammer ...
    The philosophy of religion and the quest for spiritual truth preoccupied Albert Einstein--so much that it has been said "one might suspect he was a disguised theologian." Nevertheless, the literature on the life and work of Einstein, extensive as it is, does not provide an adequate account of his religious conception and sentiments. Only fragmentarily known, Einstein's ideas about religion have ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Concepts of Space

    The History of Theories of Space in Physics: Third, Enlarged Edition

    by Max Jammer ...
    Although the concept of space is of fundamental importance in both physics and philosophy, until the publication of this book, the idea of space had never been treated in terms of its historical development. It remained for Dr. Jammer, noted scholar and historian of science, to trace the evolution of the idea of space in this comprehensive, thought-provoking study. The focus of the book is on ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Concepts of Force

    by Max Jammer ...
    Series series Dover Books on Physics
    "Professor Jammer's book traces the rise of force from the primordial 'nht' in Egyptian antiquity through its zenith as the central element of physical reality in classical mechanics to its near demise under modern criticism … a veritable tour de force … To read Concepts of Force is to gain a new and profound understanding of force and dynamics." — R. T. Weidner, Physics TodayBoth a historical ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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    The year 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the Enlightenment's most important mathematicians and scientists, Leonhard Euler. This volume is a collection of 24 essays by some of the world's best Eulerian scholars from seven different countries about Euler, his life and his work. Some of the essays are historical, including much previously unknown information about Euler's life ... Read more

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  • Worlds without End

    The Many Lives of the Multiverse

    by Mary-Jane Rubenstein ...
    A religion professor elucidates the theory of the multiverse, its history, and its reception in science, philosophy, religion, and literature.Multiverse cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Mary-Jane Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunners and explores the reasons for ... Read more

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  • History of Modern Mathematics

    by David E Smith ...
    In considering the history of modern mathematics two questions at once arise:(1) What limitations shall be placed upon the term Mathematics?(2) What force shall be assigned to the word Modern? In other words, how shall Modern Mathematics be defined?In these pages the term Mathematics will be limited to the domain of pure science. Questions of the applications of the various branches will be ... Read more

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  • Ludwig Boltzmann

    The Man Who Trusted Atoms

    by Carlo Cercignani ...
    This book presents the life and personality, the scientific and philosophical work of Ludwig Boltzmann, one of the great scientists who marked the passage from 19th- to 20th-Century physics. His rich and tragic life, ending by suicide at the age of 62, is described in detail. A substantial part of the book is devoted to discussing his scientific and philosophical ideas and placing them in the ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Mind and Nature

    Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics

    by Hermann Weyl ...
    Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was one of the twentieth century's most important mathematicians, as well as a seminal figure in the development of quantum physics and general relativity. He was also an eloquent writer with a lifelong interest in the philosophical implications of the startling new scientific developments with which he was so involved. Mind and Nature is a collection of Weyl's most ... Read more

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  • What Is Real?

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Lorenzo Chiesa ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana decided to abandon physics, disappearing because he had precociously realized that nuclear ... Read more

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  • A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

    by Olivier Darrigol ...
    This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light. It shows how light gradually became the central entity of a domain of physics that no longer referred to the functioning of the eye; it retraces the subsequent competition between medium-based and corpuscular concepts of light; and it details the nineteenth ... Read more

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  • The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory

    by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem ...
    Translated by Philip P. Wiener ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    This classic work in the philosophy of physical science is an incisive and readable account of the scientific method. Pierre Duhem was one of the great figures in French science, a devoted teacher, and a distinguished scholar of the history and philosophy of science. This book represents his most mature thought on a wide range of topics. ... Read more

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