Author: Raynor L. DuncombePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Venus (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Motion of Venus, 1750-1949
Author: Raynor L. DuncombePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Venus (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Astronomical Phenomena for the Year ...
Author: Astronomical Papers Prepared for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
Author: Astronomical Papers Prepared for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
Author: United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac OfficePublisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Newton and Empiricism
Author: Zvi BienerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199337101
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This volume of original papers by a leading team of international scholars explores Isaac Newton's relation to a variety of empiricisms and empiricists. It includes studies of Newton's experimental methods in optics and their roots in Bacon and Boyle; Locke's and Hume's responses to Newton on the nature of matter, time, the structure of the sciences, and the limits of human inquiry. In addition it explores the use of Newtonian ideas in 18th-century pedagogy and the life sciences. Finally, it breaks new ground in analyzing the method of evidential reasoning heralded by the Principia, its nature, strength, and development in the subsequent three centuries of gravitational research. The volume will be of interest to historians of science and philosophy and philosophers interested in the nature of empiricism.
Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics
Author: Dennis D. McCarthyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108187072
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
In the twenty-first century, we take the means to measure time for granted, without contemplating the sophisticated concepts on which our time scales are based. This volume presents the evolution of concepts of time and methods of time keeping up to the present day. It outlines the progression of time based on sundials, water clocks, and the Earth's rotation, to time measurement using pendulum clocks, quartz crystal clocks, and atomic frequency standards. Time scales created as a result of these improvements in technology and the development of general and special relativity are explained. This second edition has been updated throughout to describe twentieth- and twenty-first-century advances and discusses the redefinition of SI units and the future of UTC. A new chapter on time and cosmology has been added. This broad-ranging reference benefits a diverse readership, including historians, scientists, engineers, educators, and it is accessible to general readers.
The Earth's Variable Rotation
Author: Kurt LambeckPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521673303
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
An analysis of the irregular rotation of the Earth and the geophysical mechanisms responsible for it.
Technical Report - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Author: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jet propulsion
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Orbital Flight Handbook
Author: Martin Company. Space Systems DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artificial satellites
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Handbook of the Physical Properties of the Planet Venus
Author: Lloyd Randall KoenigPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description