Author: Louis-Bertrand CastelPublisher:
ISBN: 9781021264183
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Le Vrai Système De Physique Générale De M. Isaac Newton, Exposé Et Analysé En Parallele Avec Celui De Descartes: À La Portée Du Commun Des Physiciens
Author: Louis-Bertrand CastelPublisher:
ISBN: 9781021264183
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Le vrai système de physique générale de M. Isaac Newton, exposé et analysé en parallele avec celui de Descartes
Author: Louis-Bertrand CastelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : fr
Pages : 542
Book Description
Le vrai système de physique générale de M. Isaac Newton, exposé et analysé en parallèle avec celui de Descartes...
Author: Louis-Bertrand CastelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 520
Book Description
Newton and the Origin of Civilization
Author: Jed Z. BuchwaldPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691154783
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Reveals the manner in which Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution of civilization on the basis of population dynamics
Le vrai systeme de physique generale de Isaac Newton
Author: Louis Bertrand CastelLe Vrai Systeme de Physique Generale de M. Isaac Newton (1743)
Author: R. P. CastelPublisher:
ISBN: 9781104880903
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : fr
Pages : 532
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Instruments and the Imagination
Author: Thomas L. HankinsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400864119
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixtures), Aeolian harps (a form of wind chime), and other instruments of "natural magic" designed to produce wondrous effects. By looking at these and the first recording instruments, the stereoscope, and speaking machines, the authors show that "scientific instruments" first made their appearance as devices used to evoke wonder in the beholder, as in works of magic and the theater. The authors also demonstrate that these instruments, even though they were often "tricks," were seen by their inventors as more than trickery. In the view of Athanasius Kircher, for instance, the sunflower clock was not merely a hoax, but an effort to demonstrate, however fraudulently, his truly held belief that the ability of a flower to follow the sun was due to the same cosmic magnetic influence as that which moved the planets and caused the rotation of the earth. The marvels revealed in this work raise and answer questions about the connections between natural science and natural magic, the meaning of demonstration, the role of language and the senses in science, and the connections among art, music, literature, and natural science. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Bibliotheca Chemico-mathematica
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan
Author: Augustus De MorganA History of Color
Author: Robert A. CronePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940070870X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive text on the history of color theories since Halbertsma's book of 1947. Color is discussed in close connection with the evolution of ideas of light and vision. The book has chapters on the ancient Greek ideas of vision and color; on the contributions of Arabic science; on the Scientific Revolution from Kepler to Newton; on the early history of the three-color hypothesis; on the trichromatic theory and defective color vision; and on Goethe's, Schopenhauer's and Hering's theories. New understanding of the structure and functions of the retina and the brain finally results in the modern science of color vision. A History of Color has been written for ophthalmologists, optometrists and others who are interested in visual science and its history. The book requires no specialized knowledge.