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Languages : en
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The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Author: The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Author: Roy PorterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781785392818
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Provides an authoritative and accessible look at the lives of the men and women who have shaped science.
The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Author: Roy PorterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781785398711
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Provides an authoritative and accessible look at the lives of the men and women who have shaped science.
The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
A comprehensive dictionary of scientific facts. It contains the biographies of numerous scientists including the Nobel prize winners; the discoveries of each one; the importance of their specialities and how they set about their work; and also what drove and inspired them as human beings.
Perilous Planet Earth
Author: Trevor PalmerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521819282
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
A readable account of the history of natural disasters throughout history.
Elegance in Science
Author: Ian GlynnPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019150713X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The idea of elegance in science is not necessarily a familiar one, but it is an important one. The use of the term is perhaps most clear-cut in mathematics - the elegant proof - and this is where Ian Glynn begins his exploration. Scientists often share a sense of admiration and excitement on hearing of an elegant solution to a problem, an elegant theory, or an elegant experiment. The idea of elegance may seem strange in a field of endeavour that prides itself in its objectivity, but only if science is regarded as a dull, dry activity of counting and measuring. It is, of course, far more than that, and elegance is a fundamental aspect of the beauty and imagination involved in scientific activity. Ian Glynn, a distinguished scientist, selects historical examples from a range of sciences to draw out the principles of science, including Kepler's Laws, the experiments that demonstrated the nature of heat, and the action of nerves, and of course the several extraordinary episodes that led to Watson and Crick's discovery of the structure of DNA. With a highly readable selection of inspiring episodes highlighting the role of beauty and simplicity in the sciences, the book also relates to important philosophical issues of inference, and Glynn ends by warning us not to rely on beauty and simplicity alone - even the most elegant explanation can be wrong.
Controversy Catastrophism and Evolution
Author: Trevor PalmerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461549019
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
In Controversy, Trevor Palmer fully documents how traditional gradualistic views of biological and geographic evolution are giving way to a catastrophism that credits cataclysmic events, such as meteorite impacts, for the rapid bursts and abrupt transitions observed in the fossil record. According to the catastrophists, new species do not evolve gradually; they proliferate following sudden mass extinctions. Placing this major change of perspective within the context of a range of ancient debates, Palmer discusses such topics as the history of the solar system, present-day extraterrestrial threats to earth, hominid evolution, and the fossil record.
Ebook: Physical Science
Author: TilleryPublisher: McGraw Hill
ISBN: 0077185102
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 751
Book Description
Ebook: Physical Science
Systems
Author: Gabriel AltmannPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110801191
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 797
Book Description
Metals and the Royal Society
Author: D. R. F. WestPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1040294960
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
In this book two distinguished metallurgists have traced the role of metallurgical technology in the creation of the scientific revolution and the formation of the Royal Society.