Screen LibraryQuirky sides of scientists：true tales of ingenuity and error from physics and astronomy
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 210 p.: ill ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780387710181 (hd.bd.) 0387710183 (hd.bd.) 9780387710198 (e-ISBN) 0387710191 (e-ISBN) |
| Index Number: | N09 |
| CLC: | N09 |
| Call Number: | N09/T675 |
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Popular treatment. Includes bibliographical references and index. Tenacity and stubbornness: Einstein on theory and experiment -- Convergence or coincidence: ancient measurements of the sun and moon, how far? -- The rationality of simplicity: Copernicus on planetary motion -- A silence of scientists: Venus's brightness, Earth's precession, and the nebula in Orion -- Progress through error: stars and quasars, how big, how far? -- The data fit the model but the model is wrong: Kepler and the structure of the cosmos -- Art illustrates science: Galileo, a blemished moon, and a parabola of blood -- Ensnared in circles: Galileo and the law of projectile motion -- Aesthetics and holism: Newton on light, color, and music -- Missing one's own discovery: Newton and the first idea of an artificial satellite -- A change of mind: Newton and the comet(s?) of 1680 and 1681 -- A well-nigh discovery: Einstein and the expanding universe. |