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Author : Philipp Lenard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Men of Science written by Philipp Lenard and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phillip Lenard
Publisher : Mjp Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789390877775
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (777 download)
Download or read book Great Men of Science A History of Scientific Progress written by Phillip Lenard and published by Mjp Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philipp Lenard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282487409
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (874 download)
Download or read book Great Men of Science written by Philipp Lenard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Great Men of Science: A History of Scientific Progress I count it an honour to be allowed to write a few words of introduction for the English edition of Professor Lenard's historical studies of the great men of science. It is now over twenty years since I worked as a research student in his laboratory, and time has dulled many memories, but the recollection of his inspiriting and wholehearted devotion to the service of science, of his generous enthusiasm forthe work of men of genius, living and dead, and of his wonderful experimental skill and resource, is still bright. Ramsauer, Hausser and Kossel, whose names have since become famous, were among his research students at that time, and the physics colloquium, with Professor Lenard's illumin ating and significant interjections, comments and questions, made the pursuit of scientific truth seem an exciting and supremely desirable quest. It was on such occasions that Professor Lenard's interest in the history of science came particularly to our notice. Who had first shown the way here, what had he actually done, how was he led to do it? Such questions, to which our professor too often had to supply the answer himself, brought before us the great ness of past workers and the significance of their achieve ments. Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Hertz (who was Lenard's teacher): such men became living figures for us, and their tasks and successes appeared as part of an organic structure, and not as an empty record of past times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Philipp 1862-1947 Lenard
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015142978
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Great Men of Science; a History of Scientific Progress written by Philipp 1862-1947 Lenard and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Philipp Lenard
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Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Great men of science written by Philipp Lenard and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philipp Lenard
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013669712
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Great Men Of Science written by Philipp Lenard and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Grove Wilson
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ISBN 13 : 9781436704366
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Great Men of Science: Their Lives and Discoveries written by Grove Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Philipp Lenard
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Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Great Men of Science written by Philipp Lenard and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gribbin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593134036
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book The Scientists written by John Gribbin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people who have made science, and of the times in which they lived and worked. He begins with Copernicus, during the Renaissance, when science replaced mysticism as a means of explaining the workings of the world, and he continues through the centuries, creating an unbroken genealogy of not only the greatest but also the more obscure names of Western science, a dot-to-dot line linking amateur to genius, and accidental discovery to brilliant deduction. By focusing on the scientists themselves, Gribbin has written an anecdotal narrative enlivened with stories of personal drama, success and failure. A bestselling science writer with an international reputation, Gribbin is among the few authors who could even attempt a work of this magnitude. Praised as “a sequence of witty, information-packed tales” and “a terrific read” by The Times upon its recent British publication, The Scientists breathes new life into such venerable icons as Galileo, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Linus Pauling, as well as lesser lights whose stories have been undeservedly neglected. Filled with pioneers, visionaries, eccentrics and madmen, this is the history of science as it has never been told before.
Author : Grove Wilson
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Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Great Men of Science written by Grove Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. James Press
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118150627
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)
Download or read book The Subjectivity of Scientists and the Bayesian Approach written by S. James Press and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparing and contrasting the reality of subjectivity in the workof history's great scientists and the modern Bayesian approach tostatistical analysis Scientists and researchers are taught to analyze their data from anobjective point of view, allowing the data to speak for themselvesrather than assigning them meaning based on expectations oropinions. But scientists have never behaved fully objectively.Throughout history, some of our greatest scientific minds haverelied on intuition, hunches, and personal beliefs to make sense ofempirical data-and these subjective influences have often aided inhumanity's greatest scientific achievements. The authors argue thatsubjectivity has not only played a significant role in theadvancement of science, but that science will advance more rapidlyif the modern methods of Bayesian statistical analysis replace someof the classical twentieth-century methods that have traditionallybeen taught. To accomplish this goal, the authors examine the lives and work ofhistory's great scientists and show that even the most successfulhave sometimes misrepresented findings or been influenced by theirown preconceived notions of religion, metaphysics, and the occult,or the personal beliefs of their mentors. Contrary to popularbelief, our greatest scientific thinkers approached their data witha combination of subjectivity and empiricism, and thus informallyachieved what is more formally accomplished by the modern Bayesianapproach to data analysis. Yet we are still taught that science is purely objective. Thisinnovative book dispels that myth using historical accounts andbiographical sketches of more than a dozen great scientists,including Aristotle, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, WilliamHarvey, Sir Isaac Newton, Antoine Levoisier, Alexander vonHumboldt, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, GregorMendel, Sigmund Freud, Marie Curie, Robert Millikan, AlbertEinstein, Sir Cyril Burt, and Margaret Mead. Also included is adetailed treatment of the modern Bayesian approach to dataanalysis. Up-to-date references to the Bayesian theoretical andapplied literature, as well as reference lists of the primarysources of the principal works of all the scientists discussed,round out this comprehensive treatment of the subject. Readers will benefit from this cogent and enlightening view of thehistory of subjectivity in science and the authors' alternativevision of how the Bayesian approach should be used to further thecause of science and learning well into the twenty-first century.
Author : Seymour Eaton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266527138
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (271 download)
Download or read book American College Course (Classic Reprint) written by Seymour Eaton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American College Course The World's Great Scientists presented in this volume comprise sixteen of the greatest names that the world of science has known. The history of their lives and achievements would, if written in full, be a history of the development of modern scientific knowledge. The history of the lives and achievements of these great men as here set forth, is of course, a history for popular reading. The aim has been to interest as well as to in struct, and to both interest and instruct in accordance with those conditions of limited space and absence from all technicalities, which prior publication in a popular daily newspaper necessarily imposes. At the same time it is believed that the reader who makes himself master of what is contained in this book will become well grounded in most of the essential ele ments of that wonderful story of scientific development which the lives of these men enacted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Patricia Fara
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191655570
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Science written by Patricia Fara and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politics, and business. Rather than glorifying scientists as idealized heroes, she tells true stories about real people - men (and some women) who needed to earn their living, who made mistakes, and who trampled down their rivals in their quest for success. Fara sweeps through the centuries, from ancient Babylon right up to the latest hi-tech experiments in genetics and particle physics, illuminating the financial interests, imperial ambitions, and publishing enterprises that have made science the powerful global phenomenon that it is today. She also ranges internationally, illustrating the importance of scientific projects based around the world, from China to the Islamic empire, as well as the more familiar tale of science in Europe, from Copernicus to Charles Darwin and beyond. Above all, this four thousand year history challenges scientific supremacy, arguing controversially that science is successful not because it is always right - but because people have said that it is right.
Author : Patricia Fara
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198841027
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Life After Gravity written by Patricia Fara and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius who conceived the theory of gravity. But in his early fifties, he abandoned his life as a reclusive university scholar to spend three decades in London, a long period of metropolitan activity that is often overlooked. Enmeshed in Enlightenment politics and social affairs, Newton participated in the linked spheres of early science and imperialist capitalism. Instead of the quiet cloisters and dark libraries of Cambridge's all-male world, he now moved in fashionable London society, which was characterized by patronage relationships, sexual intrigues and ruthless ambition. Knighted by Queen Anne, and a close ally of influential Whig politicians, Newton occupied a powerful position as President of London's Royal Society. He also became Master of the Mint, responsible for the nation's money at a time of financial crisis, and himself making and losing small fortunes on the stock market. A major investor in the East India Company, Newton benefited from the global trading networks that relied on selling African captives to wealthy plantation owners in the Americas, and was responsible for monitoring the import of African gold to be melted down for English guineas. Patricia Fara reveals Newton's life as a cosmopolitan gentleman by focussing on a Hogarth painting of an elite Hanoverian drawing room. Gazing down from the mantelpiece, a bust of Newton looms over an aristocratic audience watching their children perform a play about European colonialism and the search for gold. Packed with Newtonian imagery, this conversation piece depicts the privileged, exploitative life in which this eminent Enlightenment figure engaged, an uncomfortable side of Newton's life with which we are much less familiar.
Author : Clifford D Conner
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 0786737867
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book A People's History of Science written by Clifford D Conner and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation. This history is made up of long periods of ignorance and confusion, punctuated once an age by a brilliant thinker who puts it all together. These few tower over the ordinary mass of people, and in the traditional account, it is to them that we owe science in its entirety. This belief is wrong. A People's History of Science shows how ordinary people participate in creating science and have done so throughout history. It documents how the development of science has affected ordinary people, and how ordinary people perceived that development. It would be wrong to claim that the formulation of quantum theory or the structure of DNA can be credited directly to artisans or peasants, but if modern science is likened to a skyscraper, then those twentieth-century triumphs are the sophisticated filigrees at its pinnacle that are supported by the massive foundation created by the rest of us.
Author : Mildred Benton
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Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Creativity in Research and Invention in the Physical Sciences written by Mildred Benton and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Knowles Bolton
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Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Famous Men of Science written by Sarah Knowles Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
