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Steven Weinberg |
To explain the world: The Discovery of Modern Science |
025926 |
2015 |
Book |
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Clifford A. Pickover |
Physics book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics |
024711 |
2011 |
Book |
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Richard Staley |
Einstein's generation: Origins of the relativity revolution |
022896 |
2009 |
Book |
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Anton Z. Capri |
Quips, quotes and quanta: An anecdotal history of physics |
022343 |
2007 |
Book |
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Roger G. Newton |
From clockwork to crapshoot: A history of physics |
022189 |
2008 |
Book |
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VISHVESHWARA, C.V. |
Einstein's enigma or black holes in my bubble bath |
021306 |
2006 |
Book |
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Mauro Dardo |
Nobel laureates and twentieth-century physics |
020073 |
2004 |
Book |
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NEEDHAM, JOSEPH (ED.) |
Background to modern science: Ten lectures at cambridge arranged by the History of Science Committee |
019671 |
1938 |
Book |
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JUNGNICKEL, CHRISTA |
Intellectual mastery of nature; Theoreticall physics from Ohm to Einstein Vol. 2: Now mighty theoretical physics 1870-1925 |
019587 |
1986 |
Book |
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A. d'Abro |
Evolution of scientific thought: From newton to einstein |
019443 |
1927 |
Book |
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| Title | To explain the world: The Discovery of Modern Science |
| Author(s) | Steven Weinberg |
| Publication | New York, Harper Collins Publishing, 2015. |
| Description | xiv, 416p. |
| Abstract Note | In this rich, irreverent, compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we now know about the world, they did not understand what there is to be understood, or how to learn it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious apparent backward movement of the planets or the rise and fall of the tides, science eventually emerged as a modern discipline. Along the way, Weinberg examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing spheres of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy.
An illuminating exploration of how we have come to consider and analyze the world around us, To Explain the World is a sweeping, ambitious account of how difficult it was to discover the goals and methods of modern science, and the impact of this discovery on human understanding and development. |
| ISBN,Price | 9780062346650 : Rs. 1636(HB) |
| Classification | 52(091)
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| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY - GREEK
2. NEWTONIAN SYNTHESIS
3. PHYSICS - GREEK
4. PHYSICS - HISTORY
5. SCIENCE - HISTORY
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| Title | Physics book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics |
| Author(s) | Clifford A. Pickover |
| Publication | New York, Sterling, 2011. |
| Description | 528p. |
| Abstract Note | Following the hugely successful The Science Book and The Math Book comes a richly illustrated chronology of physics, containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon, the book's timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time of "quantum resurrection." Like the previous titles in this series, The Physics Book helps readers gain an understanding of major concepts without getting bogged down in complex details. |
| ISBN,Price | 9781402778612 : US $ 29.95(HB) |
| Classification | 53(091)
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| Keyword(s) | 1. HISTORY - PHYSICS
2. PHYSICS - HISTORY
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| Title | Einstein's generation: Origins of the relativity revolution |
| Author(s) | Richard Staley |
| Publication | Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2009. |
| Description | x, 494p. |
| Abstract Note | Why do we celebrate Einsteinâs era above all other epochs in the history of physics? Much of the history of physics at the beginning of the twentieth century has been written with a sharp focus on a few key figures and a handful of notable events. Einsteinâs Generation offers a distinctive new approach to the origins of modern physics by exploring both the material culture that stimulated relativity and the reaction of Einsteinâs colleagues to his pioneering work.
Richard Staley weaves together the diverse strands of experimental and theoretical physics, commercial instrument making, and the sociology of physics around 1900 to present the collective efforts of a group whose work helped set the stage for Einsteinâs revolutionary theories and the transition from classical to modern physics that followed. Collecting papers, talks, catalogues, conferences, and correspondence, Staley juxtaposes scientistsâ views of relativity at the time to modern accounts of its history. Einsteinâs Generation tells the story of a group of individuals which produced some of the most significant advances of the twentieth century; and challenges our celebration of Einsteinâs era above all others.
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| ISBN,Price | 9780226770574 : US $38.00(PB) |
| Classification | 53(091)
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| Keyword(s) | 1. PHYSICS
2. PHYSICS - HISTORY
3. RELATIVITY
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