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  • Henri Poincare: A Biography Through The Daily Papers

    de Christian Gerini, Jean-marc Ginoux ...
    On July 17, 2012, the centenary of Henri Poincaré's death was commemorated; his name being associated with so many fields of knowledge that he was considered as the Last Universalist. In Pure and Applied Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, Engineering and Philosophy, his works have had a great impact all over the world. Poincaré acquired in his lifetime such a reputation that, both nationally and ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Measure of All Things

    The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

    de Ken Alder ...
    In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Physicist and the Philosopher

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Pendulum

    Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

    de Amir D. Aczel ...
    In 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Léon Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthéon in Paris. By tracking a pendulum's path as it swung repeatedly across the interior of the large ceremonial hall, Foucault offered the first definitive proof -- before an audience that comprised the cream of Parisian society, including the future emperor, Napoleon III -- that the earth ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Leonhard Euler

    Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $56.89 USD

  • Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps

    Empires of Time

    de Peter Galison ...
    "More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre." —New York Times Book ReviewA dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity....In Galison's telling of science, ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • The Taming of Chance

    de Ian Hacking ...
    Series Libro 17 - Ideas in Context
    In this important study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late-nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and to regard the world as ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Emilie Du Chatelet

    Daring Genius of the Enlightenment

    de Judith P. Zinsser ...
    The captivating biography of the French aristocrat who balanced the demands of her society with passionate affairs of the heart and a brilliant life of the mindAlthough today she is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire, Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise Du Châtelet (1706-1749) was more than a great man's mistress. After marrying a marquis at the age of eighteen, ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Seduced by Logic

    Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution

    de Robyn Arianrhod ...
    Newton's explanation of the natural law of universal gravity shattered the way mankind perceived the universe, and hence it was not immediately embraced. After all, how can anyone warm to a force that cannot be seen or touched? But for two women, separated by time and space but joined in their passion for Newtonian physics, the intellectual power of that force drove them to great achievements. ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries)

    The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution

    de Madison Smartt Bell ...
    Series series Great Discoveries
    “Fresh . . . solid . . . full of suspense and intrigue.”—Publishers WeeklyAntoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell’s enthralling narrative reads like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Restless Clock

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Romantic Machine

    Utopian Science and Technology After Napoleon

    de John Tresch ...
    In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus