Author: David B. Wilson
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046163
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to the modern revolution in physics. Examines how the history of science has been influenced by John Robison and other notable intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.
Seeking Nature's Logic
Author: David B. Wilson
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046163
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to the modern revolution in physics. Examines how the history of science has been influenced by John Robison and other notable intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046163
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to the modern revolution in physics. Examines how the history of science has been influenced by John Robison and other notable intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.
Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Nature
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368800140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368800140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Nature's Clocks
Author: Doug Macdougall
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520933443
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the age of objects and organisms. By examining radiocarbon (C-14) dating—the best known of these methods—and several other techniques that geologists use to decode the distant past, Macdougall unwraps the last century's advances, explaining how they reveal the age of our fossil ancestors such as "Lucy," the timing of the dinosaurs' extinction, and the precise ages of tiny mineral grains that date from the beginning of the earth's history. In lively and accessible prose, he describes how the science of geochronology has developed and flourished. Relating these advances through the stories of the scientists themselves—James Hutton, William Smith, Arthur Holmes, Ernest Rutherford, Willard Libby, and Clair Patterson—Macdougall shows how they used ingenuity and inspiration to construct one of modern science's most significant accomplishments: a timescale for the earth's evolution and human prehistory.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520933443
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the age of objects and organisms. By examining radiocarbon (C-14) dating—the best known of these methods—and several other techniques that geologists use to decode the distant past, Macdougall unwraps the last century's advances, explaining how they reveal the age of our fossil ancestors such as "Lucy," the timing of the dinosaurs' extinction, and the precise ages of tiny mineral grains that date from the beginning of the earth's history. In lively and accessible prose, he describes how the science of geochronology has developed and flourished. Relating these advances through the stories of the scientists themselves—James Hutton, William Smith, Arthur Holmes, Ernest Rutherford, Willard Libby, and Clair Patterson—Macdougall shows how they used ingenuity and inspiration to construct one of modern science's most significant accomplishments: a timescale for the earth's evolution and human prehistory.
Nature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
The Forces of Nature
Author: Amédée Guillemin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Zapped
Author: Bob Berman
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316311316
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
How much do you know about the radiation all around you? Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see, hear, smell or feel it, but there is never a single second when it is not flying through your body. Too much of it will kill you, but without it you wouldn't live a year. From beloved popular science writer Bob Berman, Zapped tells the story of all the light we cannot see, tracing infrared, microwaves, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays, radio waves and other forms of radiation from their historic, world-altering discoveries in the 19th century to their central role in our modern way of life, setting the record straight on health costs (and benefits) and exploring the consequences of our newest technologies. Lively, informative, and packed with fun facts and "eureka moments," Zapped will delight anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of our world.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316311316
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
How much do you know about the radiation all around you? Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see, hear, smell or feel it, but there is never a single second when it is not flying through your body. Too much of it will kill you, but without it you wouldn't live a year. From beloved popular science writer Bob Berman, Zapped tells the story of all the light we cannot see, tracing infrared, microwaves, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays, radio waves and other forms of radiation from their historic, world-altering discoveries in the 19th century to their central role in our modern way of life, setting the record straight on health costs (and benefits) and exploring the consequences of our newest technologies. Lively, informative, and packed with fun facts and "eureka moments," Zapped will delight anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of our world.
Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry
Author: Gaston Tissandier
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732631745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry by Gaston Tissandier
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732631745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry by Gaston Tissandier
Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, Etc., Etc., Etc
Author: Gaston Tissandier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scientific recreations
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scientific recreations
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
First Lines of Natural Philosophy, Divested of Mathematical Formulae
Author: Reynell Coates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description