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Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pask demonstrates how the Principia sets out Newton's approach to science, how the framework of classic mechanics is established, how terrestrial phenomena like the tides and projectile motion are explained, and how we can understand the dynamics of the solar system and the paths of comets.
Author
Edition
Dover ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the last, and perhaps most important, work by the man Einstein called "the father of modern science." Confined to house arrest in the final years of his life after his heresy trial, Galileo Galilei composed his "Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences" in 1638 as a sort of magnum opus to a life devoted to scientific experimentation. The book outlines his investigations into physics and astronomy, and includes such topics as the law of free fall,...
Author
Series
Great books of the Western World. 5th year volume 5, no. 9-11
Pub. Date
1956
Physical Desc
37, 106, xxviii, 49 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
clxxxvi, 326, 51 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in a highly accessible English translation by a distinguished scholar. Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment, Archimedes addressed such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the measurement of a circle; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; and the quadrature of the parabola. This edition offers...
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