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978-3-540-77626-0
A Comprehensible Universe : The Interplay of Science and Theology

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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978-0-8176-4540-3
A Software-Defined GPS and Galileo Receiver

Satellite navigation receivers are used to receive, process, and decode space-based navigation signals, such as those provided ...

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978-3-540-33200-8
Einsteins Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath

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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978-1-4020-6246-9
Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany

This work is to counter historiographies that search for the origins of modern science within the experimental practices ...

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978-3-540-27054-6
Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood Still

"I, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years ...kneeling before you Most Eminent and Reverend ...

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978-0-387-71019-8
Quirky Sides of Scientists : True Tales of Ingenuity and Error From Physics and Astronomy

This enlightening book clearly demonstrates that the greatest minds throughout history arrived at their famous scientific ...

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978-1-4020-6354-1
Scientific Progress : A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories

In this book, Craig Dilworth answers all the questions raised by the incommensurability thesis. Logical empiricism cannot ...

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978-0-387-27961-9
Space Systems Failures

The very first book on space systems failures written from an engineering perspective. In the 1960s and 1970s deep space ...

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978-0-387-48811-0
Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists

This revised and greatly expanded second edition of the Russian text Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians contains a wealth ...

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978-3-540-37723-8
The Antarctic Subglacial Lake Vostok

The first book on the subject, this monograph examines the phenomenon of a huge sealed, freshwater lake, isolated from the ...

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978-1-4020-5499-0
The English Galileo : Thomas Harriot’s Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics

The English Galileo, the first book in series, investigates the shared knowledge of preclassical mechanics by relating the ...

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978-3-211-78923-0
Yearbook on Space Policy 2006/2007 : New Impetus for Europe

The Yearbook on Space Policy aims to be the reference publication analysing space policy developments. Each year it presents ...

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