Author: A. D'Abro
Publisher:
Published: 1987-06-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780844619378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mashalidis
Publisher:
Published: 1999-09-01
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780536027917
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gerald Holton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1988-05-25
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780674877481
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The highly acclaimed first edition of this major work convincingly established Gerald Holton’s analysis of the ways scientific ideas evolve. His concept of “themata,” induced from case studies with special attention to the work of Einstein, has become one of the chief tools for understanding scientific progress. It is now one of the main approaches in the study of the initiation and acceptance of individual scientific insights. Three principal consequences of this perspective extend beyond the study of the history of science itself. It provides philosophers of science with the kind of raw material on which some of the best work in their field is based. It helps intellectual historians to redefine the place of modern science in contemporary culture by identifying influences on the scientific imagination. And it prompts educators to reexamine the conventional concepts of education in science. In this new edition, Holton has masterfully reshaped the contents and widened the coverage. Significant new material has been added, including a penetrating account of the advent of quantum physics in the United States, and a broad consideration of the integrity of science, as exemplified in the work of Niels Bohr. In addition, a revised introduction and a new postscript provide an updated perspective on the role of themata. The result of this thoroughgoing revision is an indispensable volume for scholars and students of scientific thought and intellectual history.
Author: Einstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1971-11-30
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780521083713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arthur Stanley Sir Eddington
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2023-07-10
Total Pages: 38
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The theory of relativity and its influence on scientific thought" by Arthur Stanley Sir Eddington. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author: Gerald James Holton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780674004337
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"[The] book makes a wonderfully cohesive whole. It is rich in ideas, elegantly expressed. I highly recommend it to any serious student of science and culture."--Lucy Horwitz, Boston Book Review "An important and lasting contribution to a more profound understanding of the place of science in our culture."--Hans C. von Baeyer, Boston Sunday Globe "[Holton's] themes are central to an understanding of the nature of science, and Holton does an excellent job of identifying and explaining key features of the scientific enterprise, both in the historical sense and in modern science...I know of no better informed scientist who has studied the nature of science for half a century."--Ron Good, Science and Education Through his rich exploration of Einstein's thought, Gerald Holton shows how the best science depends on great intuitive leaps of imagination, and how science is indeed the creative expression of the traditions of Western civilization.
Author: Harald Fritzsch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994-10-15
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780226265575
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Following the style of Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, and addressed to readers without specialized knowledge in physics and higher mathematics, this book lets us listen in on an imaginary meeting of the scientists who created classical physics and modern relativity.
Author: Arthur Eddington
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-10
Total Pages: 26
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'The Theory of Relativity and Its Influence on Scientific Thought' is a book written by Arthur Eddington; an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. Eddington wrote a number of articles that announced and explained Einstein's theory of general relativity to the English-speaking world. World War I had severed many lines of scientific communication, and new developments in German science were not well known in England. He also conducted an expedition to observe the solar eclipse of 29 May 1919 that provided one of the earliest confirmations of general relativity, and he became known for his popular expositions and interpretations of the theory.