Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore ...
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Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath tells the story of gravitation theory from the early historic origins ...
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This work is to counter historiographies that search for the origins of modern science within the experimental practices ...
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"I, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years ...kneeling before you Most Eminent and Reverend ...
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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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This enlightening book clearly demonstrates that the greatest minds throughout history arrived at their famous scientific ...
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In this book, Craig Dilworth answers all the questions raised by the incommensurability thesis. Logical empiricism cannot ...
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This revised and greatly expanded second edition of the Russian text Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians contains a wealth ...
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The English Galileo, the first book in series, investigates the shared knowledge of preclassical mechanics by relating the ...
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