A Century of Ideas : Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century
Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel ...
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Buchi neri nel mio bagno di schiuma : L’enigma di Einstein = Black holes in my bubble bath : Einstein's riddle
Einstein's Enigma, or black holes in my foam bath, tells the story of the theory of gravitation, from its beginnings to ...
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Il cielo sopra Roma : I luoghi dell’astronomia = The sky above Rome: The places of astronomy
Astronomy in Rome has always been there, but a little hidden: it was in the palaces, in the churches or, better, above the ...
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Information—Consciousness—Reality
This book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. ...
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La loi de la gravitation universelle Newton, Euler et Laplace : Le cheminement d’une révolution scientifique vers une science normale = The law of universal gravitation Newton, Euler and Laplace: The progress of a scientific revolution towards a normal science
An analysis of Newton's ideas dismisses this hypothesis by the simple fact that the Principia sought to demonstrate the ...
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Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
This book documenting the extraordinary life of an aspiring woman scientist whose life was filled with adversity. Surviving ...
اقرأ المزيدMelting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks - From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN : With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn
This book shows how the study of multi-hadron production phenomena in the years after the founding of CERN culminated in ...
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This volume covers five aspects related to light. The first presents two articles, one on the history of the nature of light, ...
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Panofsky on Physics, Politics and Peace : Pief Remembers
"This volume contains an unsystematic account of my past work; it is not intended to be an autobiography in the conventional ...
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Ruggiero Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy
Drawing on published works, correspondence and manuscripts, this book offers the most comprehensive reconstruction of Boscovich’s ...
اقرأ المزيدThe Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
The book presents examples of models that are classical in essence, but can be analysed by the use of quantum techniques, ...
اقرأ المزيدThe Challenge of Chance : A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities
This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with contributions from distinguished researchers in the areas ...
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The Moon that Wasn’t : The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite
This book details the history of one of astronomy’s many spurious objects, the satellite of Venus. First spotted in 1645, ...
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