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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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