Author: Mary SomervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Mechanism of the Heavens
Author: Mary SomervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Mechanism of the Heavens
Author: Mary SomervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celestial mechanics
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Mechanism of the Heavens
Author: Mary SomervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celestial mechanics
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanism of the Heavens
Author: Mary SomervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celestial mechanics
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The first american edition of the Scottish scientist Mary Somerville's work.
Decoding the Heavens
Author: Jo MarchantPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409060470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck near the island of Antikythera dating from around 70 BC. Lying unnoticed for months amongst their hard-won haul was what appeared to be a formless lump of corroded rock, which turned out to be the most stunning scientific artefact we have from antiquity. For more than a century this 'Antikythera mechanism' - an ancient computer - puzzled academics, but now, more than 2000 years after the device was lost at sea, scientists have pieced together its intricate workings. In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the story of the 100-year quest to understand the Antikythera mechanism. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable characters - ranging from Archimedes to Jacques Cousteau - and explores the deep roots of modern technology not only in Ancient Greece, the Islamic world and medieval Europe.
The Mechanism of the Heavens
Author: Denison OlmstedPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382313898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Decoding the Heavens
Author: Jo MarchantPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459600096
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable characters and explores the deep roots of modern technology in ancient Greece and the medieval European and Islamic worlds. At its heart, this is an epic adventure and mystery, a book that challenges our assumptions about technology through the ages.
The Mechanism of the Heavens; Or, Familiar Illustrations of Astronomy. With Historical and Biographical Sketches
Author: Denison OLMSTEDMary Somerville
Author: Kathryn A. NeeleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521626729
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A biography of the leading woman of science in Great Britain during the nineteenth century.
The Fabric of the Heavens
Author: Stephen ToulminPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226808482
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The story of our relationship with the stars and their celestial cousins is long, involving, and full of surprises. The Fabric of the Heavens, by science historians Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield, outlines thinking about astronomy and dynamics from "pre-theoretical" Babylonian times to the Newtonian revolution that seeded our modern conceptions of space. Fully integrating the two cultures of science and the humanities, the authors find evidence of new thinking in Milton's writing and medieval tapestries as well as classic scientific and pre-scientific works. Using language that is beautiful, compelling and precise, they trace the threads of history which are woven into today's science (which, they predict, will find itself woven into something even more startlingly unrecognisable in years hence). Why were the ancients so fascinated by the sky and stars? Interestingly, it seems that their concerns were mostly practical; theological significance took longer to attach itself to the patterns up above. Agricultural and navigational concerns, once resolved, gave way to deeper philosophical, mythological and religious curiosity--which used the mathematical tools of its predecessors to great effect. The lives and works of Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo and Newton are all thoroughly explored, and it is easier to see the continuity between them and their contemporaries in the breadth of this writing. First published in 1962, The Fabric of the Heavens was one of the first postmodern studies of the development of physical science; even were it not such a pleasure to read, it would still merit careful study.