Author: Henry WoodwardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Geological Magazine
Author: Henry WoodwardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Cavendish
Author: Christa JungnickelPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754450
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
"The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--BOOK JACKET.
The Philosophical magazine and journal
Author: The Founders of Seismology
Author: Charles DavisonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107691494
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book, first published in 1927, provides a historical study regarding the origins of seismology and the key figures in its development.
Philosophical Magazine and Journal
Author: Philosophical Magazine
Author: Charles Darwin's Shorter Publications, 1829-1883
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521888093
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Annotated with original illustrations, this valuable text brings together all known shorter publications, letters and journals written by Charles Darwin.
History of Shock Waves, Explosions and Impact
Author: Peter O. K. KrehlPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540304215
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
This unique and encyclopedic reference work describes the evolution of the physics of modern shock wave and detonation from the earlier and classical percussion. The history of this complex process is first reviewed in a general survey. Subsequently, the subject is treated in more detail and the book is richly illustrated in the form of a picture gallery. This book is ideal for everyone professionally interested in shock wave phenomena.
The Naturalist
Author: Bursting the Limits of Time
Author: Martin J. S. RudwickPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226731146
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this relatively brief period, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud did, Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world's foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to sketch this historicization of the natural world in the age of revolution. Addressing this intellectual revolution for the first time, Rudwick examines the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together. He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth's history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology. Rooting his analysis in a detailed study of primary sources, Rudwick emphasizes the lasting importance of field- and museum-based research of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bursting the Limits of Time, the culmination of more than three decades of research, is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science.