A History of Physical Theories of Comets, From Aristotle to Whipple
The book describes the major physical theories of comets in the past two millennia. It demonstrates the evolution of ideas ...
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Analysis by Its History
This book presents first-year calculus roughly in the order in which it first was discovered. The first two chapters show ...
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Heaven Upon Earth
THE HISTORY OF BRITISHAPOCALYPTICTHOUGHT The study of early modern Britain between the Reformation of the 1530s and the Wars ...
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History of Mathematics : A Supplement
This book attempts to fill two gaps which exist in the standard textbooks on the History of Mathematics. One is to provide ...
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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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Leonhard Euler
Euler was not only by far the most productive mathematician in the history of mankind, but also one of the greatest scholars ...
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Mathematical Masterpieces
Experience the discovery of mathematics by reading the original work of some of the greatest minds throughout history. Here ...
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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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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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Thomas Harriots Artis Analyticae Praxis
The present work is the first ever English translation of the original text of Thomas Harriot's Artis Analyticae Praxis, ...
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Wrong for the Right Reasons
The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's ...
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