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“michael hagner”

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  • Seeing Foucault's Pendulum

    Between Science, Politics, and Art

    by Seeing the Earth Move Michael Hagner ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    An investigation of a cosmic experimentIn 1851, the physicist Léon Foucault performed an unforgettable experiment. By suspending a large pendulum inside the dome of Paris’ Pantheon, Foucault provided the first simple, direct empirical evidence of the Earth's rotation—an undeniable demonstration of heliocentrism. This experiment, conducted long after the Copernican Revolution and using a laboratory ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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  • The Restless Clock

    A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

    by Jessica Riskin ...
    A "wide-ranging, witty, and astonishingly learned" scientific and cultural history of the concept of the capacity to act in nature ( London Review of Books).Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The One

    How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics

    by Heinrich Päs ...
    A "fascinating [and] provocative" argument by a particle physicist—marshalling a "heady mix of history, philosophy and cutting-edge theory" (Wall Street Journal)—for monism, the ancient idea about the universe that says, All is OneIn The One,particle physicist Heinrich Päs presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole. The idea, called monism, ... Read more

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  • The Physicist and the Philosopher

    Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time

    by Jimena Canales ...
    The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truthOn April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be ... Read more

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  • Leonhard Euler

    Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment

    by Ronald S. Calinger ...
    An acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707–83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time. In this comprehensive and authoritative account, Ronald Calinger connects the story of Euler's eventful life to the astonishing achievements that place him in the company of Archimedes, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Einstein, Picasso

    Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc

    by Arthur I Miller ...
    The most important scientist of the twentieth century and the most important artist had their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances. This fascinating parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men examines their greatest creations -- Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Einstein's special theory of relativity. Miller ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of Knowledge

    Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene

    by Jürgen Renn ...
    A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations going back to the dawn of civilization while providing ... Read more

    $23.09 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

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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

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  • A Theory of Everything (That Matters)

    A Brief Guide to Einstein, Relativity, and His Surprising Thoughts on God

    by Alister McGrath ...
    In Light of Today's Scientific Achievements, Do We Need God Anymore?Einstein's revolutionary scientific ideas have transformed our world, ushering in the nuclear age. The current pace of scientific and technological progress is simply astounding. So is there any place for faith in such a world?Einstein himself gave careful thought to the deepest questions of life. His towering intellectual status ... Read more

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  • Scientific Babel

    How Science Was Done Before and After Global English

    by Michael D. Gordin ...
    English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn't always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise ... Read more

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  • Einstein in Bohemia

    by Professor Michael D. Gordin ...
    A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended to make Prague his home, he lived there for just sixteen months, an interlude that his biographies typically dismiss as a brief and inconsequential ... Read more

    $21.59 USD