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Egeland, Alv |
Kristian Birkeland |
I05530 |
2005 |
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Boniolo, Giovanni |
The Role of Mathematics in Physical Sciences |
I05526 |
2005 |
eBook |
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| 193 |
Nieuwstadt, F.T |
Selected Papers of J. M. Burgers |
I05229 |
1995 |
eBook |
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| 194 |
Goldish, M |
Judaism in the Theology of Sir Isaac Newton |
I04953 |
1998 |
eBook |
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| 195 |
Onnes, Heike Kamerlingh |
Through Measurement to Knowledge |
I04519 |
1991 |
eBook |
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| 196 |
Plaumann, P |
Geometry ??? von Staudt???s Point of View |
I04380 |
1981 |
eBook |
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| 197 |
Blackmore, J.T |
Ernst Mach ??? A Deeper Look |
I03869 |
1992 |
eBook |
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| 198 |
Lagrange, J.L |
Analytical Mechanics |
I03687 |
1997 |
eBook |
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| 199 |
Sullivan, W.T |
Classics in Radio Astronomy |
I03283 |
1982 |
eBook |
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| 200 |
Unguru, Sabetai |
Physics, Cosmology and Astronomy, 1300???1700: Tension and Accommodation |
I02495 |
1991 |
eBook |
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| Title | Kristian Birkeland : The First Space Scientist |
| Author(s) | Egeland, Alv;Burke, William J |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2005. |
| Description | X, 228 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | At the beginning of the 20th century Kristian Birkeland (1867-1917), a Norwegian scientist of insatiable curiosity, addressed questions that had vexed European scientists for centuries. Why do the northern lights appear overhead when the Earth???s magnetic field is disturbed? How are magnetic storms connected to disturbances on the Sun? To answer these questions Birkeland interpreted his advance laboratory simulations and daring campaigns in the Arctic wilderness in the light of Maxwell???s newly discovered laws of electricity and magnetism. Birkeland???s ideas were dismissed for decades, only to be vindicated when satellites could fly above the Earth???s atmosphere. Faced with the depleting stocks of Chilean saltpeter and the consequent prospect of mass starvation, Birkeland showed his practical side, inventing the first industrial scale method to extract nitrogen-based fertilizers from the air. Norsk Hydro, one of modern Norway???s largest industries, stands as a living tribute to his genius. Hoping to demonstrate what we now call the solar wind, Birkeland moved to Egypt in 1913. Isolated from his friends by the Great War, Birkeland yearned to celebrate his 50th birthday in Norway. The only safe passage home, via the Far East, brought him to Tokyo where in the late spring of 1917 he passed away |
| ISBN,Price | 9781402032943 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. HISTORY
7. History, general
8. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | The Role of Mathematics in Physical Sciences : Interdisciplinary and Philosophical Aspects |
| Author(s) | Boniolo, Giovanni;Budinich, Paolo;Trobok, Majda |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2005. |
| Description | X, 244 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Even though mathematics and physics have been related for centuries and this relation appears to be unproblematic, there are many questions still open: Is mathematics really necessary for physics, or could physics exist without mathematics? Should we think physically and then add the mathematics apt to formalise our physical intuition, or should we think mathematically and then interpret physically the obtained results? Do we get mathematical objects by abstraction from real objects, or vice versa? Why is mathematics effective into physics? These are all relevant questions, whose answers are necessary to fully understand the status of physics, particularly of contemporary physics. The aim of this book is to offer plausible answers to such questions through both historical analyses of relevant cases, and philosophical analyses of the relations between mathematics and physics |
| ISBN,Price | 9781402031076 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. HISTORY
4. History of Mathematical Sciences
5. Mathematical Methods in Physics
6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
7. MATHEMATICS
8. Philosophy and science
9. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
10. PHYSICS
11. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | Selected Papers of J. M. Burgers |
| Author(s) | Nieuwstadt, F.T;Steketee, J.A |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1995. |
| Description | CIX, 650 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | J.M. Burgers (1895--1981) is regarded as one of the leading scientists in the field of fluid mechanics, contributing many important results, a number of which still bear his name. However, the work of this outstanding scientist was mostly published in the Proceedings and Transactions of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, of which he was a distinguished member. Nowadays, this work is almost impossible to obtain through the usual library channels. Therefore, the editors have decided to reissue the most important work of J.M. Burgers, which gives the reader access to the original papers which led to important results, now known as the Burgers Equation, the Burgers Vector and the Burgers Vortex. Further, the book contains a biography of J.M. Burgers, which provides the reader with both information on his scientific life, as well as a rounded impression of the many activities which J.M. Burgers performed or was involved in outside his science |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401101950 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Continuum Physics
2. Continuum physics
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. HISTORY
6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
7. History, general
8. MECHANICS
9. Mechanics, Applied
10. PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
11. PHYSICS
12. Solid Mechanics
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| Title | Judaism in the Theology of Sir Isaac Newton |
| Author(s) | Goldish, M |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1998. |
| Description | XII, 244 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book is based on my doctoral dissertation from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1996) of the same title. As a master's student, working on an entirely different project, I was well aware that many of Newton's theological manuscripts were located in our own Jewish National and University Library, but I was under the mistaken assumption that scores of highly qualified scholars must be assiduously scouring them and publishing their results. It never occurred to me to look at them at all until, having fmished my master's, I spoke to Professor David Katz at Tel-Aviv University about an idea I had for doctoral research. Professor Katz informed me that the project I had suggested was one which he himself had just fmished, but that I might be interested in working on the famous Newton manuscripts in the context of a project being organized by him, Richard Popkin, James Force, and the late Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, to study and publish Newton's theological material. I asked him whether he was not sending me into the shark-infested waters of highly competitive scholarship, and learned that in fact there were only a handful of scholars in the world who actively studied and published on Newton's theology. At the time the group consisted mainly of Popkin, Force, Dobbs, Frank Manuel, Kenneth Knoespel, and David Castillejo |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401720144 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. HISTORY
4. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
5. History, general
6. METAPHYSICS
7. PHYSICS
8. RELIGION
9. Religious Studies, general
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| Title | Through Measurement to Knowledge : The Selected Papers of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 1853???1926 |
| Author(s) | Onnes, Heike Kamerlingh;Gavroglu, K;Goudaroulis, Yorgos |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1991. |
| Description | CXVI, 576 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | "Tile; D'apC:Tile; l. DpWTa ()coi 7rpo7rapod)w ?? D'T}K,mi'. "between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows". This quote from Isiodos, the first lyrical poet, is jotted on a sheet of paper found among the papers of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes at the Boerhaave Museum, Leiden. On this same sheet, one can also read quotes from Schiller, Goethe, Shakespeare, Homer, Pindar and Dante. Each quote is for somebody or something. It appears to have been a game played at least by Ehrenfest and Crommelin -an unmistakable sign of these two physicists's deep culture. This particular quote was for the "Werkplaats", the Physical Laboratory of the University of Leiden. Our purpose in putting together the Selected Papers of its first Director, Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926), is to try and articulate the dominant trends of a different type of culture at Leiden: its physics culture during the years that established low temperature physics as a distinct branch of physics. Our aims in choosing the particular papers are threefold. First, we wish to present the interconnectedness among the different research programs of Kamerlingh Onnes and to bring out the decisive role of the work initiated by van der Waals in determining the direction of nearly all of these research programs |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400920798 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. HISTORY
4. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
5. History, general
6. Philosophy and science
7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
8. PHYSICS
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| Title | Ernst Mach ??? A Deeper Look : Documents and New Perspectives |
| Author(s) | Blackmore, J.T |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1992. |
| Description | XIX, 463 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Ernst Mach -- A Deeper Look has been written to reveal to English-speaking readers the recent revival of interest in Ernst Mach in Europe and Japan. The book is a storehouse of new information on Mach as a philosopher, historian, scientist and person, containing a number of biographical and philosophical manuscripts publihsed for the first time, along with correspondence and other matters published for the first time in English. The book also provides English translations of Mach's controversies with leading physicists and psychologists, such as Max Planck and Carl Stumpf, and offers basic evidence for resolving Mach's position on atomism and Einstein's theory of relativity. Mach's scientific, philosophical and personal influence in a number of countries -- Austria, Germany, Bohemia and Yugoslavia among them -- has been carefully explored and many aspects detailed for the first time. All of the articles are eminently readable, especially those written by Mach's sister. They are deeply researched, new interpretations abound, and the bibliography includes recent works by and about Mach from over a dozen countries. The book also contains many articles by or about Mach's contemporaries, including Ostwald, Dingler, Weichert and, especially, Einstein. Finally, and most intriguingly, the original ideas of Japanese scholars are presented, built on Mach's philosophy. These demonstrate how Mach's world view is currently contributing to the solution of contemporary philosophical problems |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401127714 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. HISTORY
4. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
5. History, general
6. Modern philosophy
7. Philosophy and science
8. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
9. PHYSICS
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| Title | Classics in Radio Astronomy |
| Author(s) | Sullivan, W.T |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1982. |
| Description | XXIV, 350 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Radio techniques were the nrst to lead astronomy away from the quiescent and limited Universe revealed by traditional observations at optical wave?? lengths. In the earliest days of radio astronomy, a handful of radio physicists and engineers made one startling discovery after another as they opened up the radio sky. With this collection of classic papers and the extensive intro?? ductory material, the reader can experience these exciting discoveries, as well as understand the developing techniques and follow the motivations which prompted the various lines of inquiry. For instance he or she will follow in detail the several attempts to detect radio waves from the sun at the turn of the century; the unravelling by Jansky of a "steady hiss type static"; the incredible story of Reber who built a 9 meter dish in his backyard in 1937 and then mapped the Milky Way; the vital discoveries by Hey and colleagues of radio bursts from the Sun and of a discrete source in the constellation of Cygnus; the development of receivers and interferometry in the post-war years by the groups led by Ryle in Cambridge and Pawsey in Sydney; the nrst measurements and exciting identiftcations of Taurus A (the Crab Nebula), Centaurus A, Virgo A, Cassiopeia A, and Cygnus A, the last opening the neld of radio cosmology; the early development of synchroton theory; and the prediction and discovery seven years later of the 21 cm line of neutral hy?? drogen |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400977525 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. HISTORY
6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
7. History, general
8. Observations, Astronomical
9. PHYSICS
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| Title | Physics, Cosmology and Astronomy, 1300???1700: Tension and Accommodation |
| Author(s) | Unguru, Sabetai |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1991. |
| Description | VIII, 327 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Habent sua Jata colloquia. The present volume has its ongms in a spring 1984 international workshop held, under the auspices of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, by The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas of Tel-Aviv University in cooperation with The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation. It contains twelve of the twenty papers presented at the workshop by the twenty-six participants. As Proceedings of conferences go, it is a good representative of the genre, sharing in the main characteristics of its ilk. It may even be one of the rare instances of a book of Proceed?? ings whose descriptive title applies equally well to the workshop's topic and to the interrelations between. the various papers it includes. Tension and Accommodation are the key words. Thus, while John Glucker's paper, 'Images of Plato in Late Antiqu?? ity,' raises, by means of the Platonic example, the problem of interpreta?? tion of ancient texts, suggesting the assignment of proper weight to the creator of the tradition and not only to his many later interpreters in assessing the proper relationship between originator and commentators, Abraham Wasserstein's 'Hunches that did not come off: Some Prob?? lems in Greek Science' illustrates the long-lived Whiggish tradition in the history of science and mathematics. As those familiar with my work will undoubtedly note, Wasserstein's position is far removed from my stance on ancient Greek mathematics |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401133425 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. HISTORY
6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
7. History of Mathematical Sciences
8. MATHEMATICS
9. Observations, Astronomical
10. Philosophy and science
11. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
12. PHYSICS
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