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Author : Theodore Evelyn Reece Phillips
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hutchinson's Splendour of the Heavens written by Theodore Evelyn Reece Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Norman Lockyer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
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Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe written by William Edward Hartpole Lecky and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald W. Olson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461484030
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Celestial Sleuth written by Donald W. Olson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a general audience interested in solving mysteries in art, history, and literature using the methods of science, 'forensic astronomy' is a thrilling new field of exploration. Astronomical calculations are the basis of the studies, which have the advantage of bringing to readers both evocative images and a better understanding of the skies. Weather facts, volcano studies, topography, tides, historical letters and diaries, famous paintings, military records, and the friendly assistance of experts in related fields add variety, depth, and interest to the work. The chosen topics are selected for their wide public recognition and intrigue, involving artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, and Ansel Adams; historical events such as the Battle of Marathon, the death of Julius Caesar, the American Revolution, and World War II; and literary authors such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Joyce, and Mary Shelley. This book sets out to answer these mysteries indicated with the means and expertise of astronomy, opening the door to a richer experience of human culture and its relationship with nature. Each subject is carefully analyzed. As an example using the study of sky paintings by Vincent van Gogh, the analytical method would include: - computer calculations of historical skies above France in the 19th century - finding and quoting the clues found in translations of original letters by Van Gogh - making site visits to France to determine the precise locations when Van Gogh set up his easel and what celestial objects are depicted. For each historical event influenced by astronomy, there would be a different kind of mystery to be solved. As an example: - How can the phase of the Moon and time of moonrise help to explain a turning point of the American Civil War - the fatal wounding of Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville in 1863? For each literary reference to astronomy, it was determined which celestial objects were being described and making an argument that the author is describing an actual event. For example, what was the date of the moonlit scene when Mary Shelley first had the idea for her novel “Frankenstein?” These and more fun riddles will enchant and delight the fan of art and astronomy.
Author : Jerome R. Ravetz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000159841
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems written by Jerome R. Ravetz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is continually confronted by new and difficult social and ethical problems. Some of these problems have arisen from the transformation of the academic science of the prewar period into the industrialized science of the present. Traditional theories of science are now widely recognized as obsolete. In Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems (originally published in 1971), Jerome R. Ravetz analyzes the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems. He demonstrates the role of choice and value judgment, and the inevitability of error, in scientific research. Ravetz's new introductory essay is a masterful statement of how our understanding of science has evolved over the last two decades.
Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226068668
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Science for All written by Peter J. Bowler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implications. But it has generally been assumed that once science became a profession around the turn of the century, this new generation of scientists turned its collective back on public outreach. Science for All debunks this apocryphal notion. Peter J. Bowler surveys the books, serial works, magazines, and newspapers published between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II to show that practicing scientists were very active in writing about their work for a general readership. Science for All argues that the social environment of early twentieth-century Britain created a substantial market for science books and magazines aimed at those who had benefited from better secondary education but could not access higher learning. Scientists found it easy and profitable to write for this audience, Bowler reveals, and because their work was seen as educational, they faced no hostility from their peers. But when admission to colleges and universities became more accessible in the 1960s, this market diminished and professional scientists began to lose interest in writing at the nonspecialist level. Eagerly anticipated by scholars of scientific engagement throughout the ages, Science for All sheds light on our own era and the continuing tension between science and public understanding.
Author : Andrew Dickson White
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom written by Andrew Dickson White and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.E. Force
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401732493
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Books of Nature and Scripture written by J.E. Force and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Popkin and James Force have attended a number of recent conferences where it was apparent that much new and important research was being done in the fields of interpreting Newton's and Spinoza's contributions as biblical scholars and of the relationship between their biblical scholarship and other aspects of their particular philosophies. This collection represents the best current research in this area. It stands alone as the only work to bring together the best current work on these topics. Its primary audience is specialised scholars of the thought of Newton and Spinoza as well as historians of the philosophical ideas of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Author : Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Astronomy of To-day: A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language written by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronomy of Today: A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Dolmage is a general encyclopedia about astronomy useful to beginners and experts alike. Contents: "The Ancient View 17 CHAPTER II The Modern View 20 CHAPTER III The Solar System 29 CHAPTER IV Celestial Mechanism 38 CHAPTER V Celestial Distances 46 CHAPTER VI Celestial Measurement 55 CHAPTER VII Eclipses and Kindred Phenomena 61 CHAPTER VIII Famous Eclipses of the Sun 83 CHAPTER IX Famous Eclipses of the Moon 101 CHAPTER X The Growth of Observation 105 CHAPTER XI Spectrum Analysis 121 CHAPTER XII The Sun 127 CHAPTER XIII The Sun—continued."
Author : Mary Brück
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048124735
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Women in Early British and Irish Astronomy written by Mary Brück and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Careers in astronomy for women (as in other sciences) were a rarity in Britain and Ireland until well into the twentieth century. The book investigates the place of women in astronomy before that era, recounted in the form of biographies of about 25 women born between 1650 and 1900 who in varying capacities contributed to its progress during the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are some famous names among them whose biographies have been written before now, there are others who have received less than their due recognition while many more occupied inconspicuous and sometimes thankless places as assistants to male family members. All deserve to be remembered as interesting individuals in an earlier opportunity-poor age. Placed in roughly chronological order, their lives constitute a sample thread in the story of female entry into the male world of science. The book is aimed at astronomers, amateur astronomers, historians of science, and promoters of women in science, but being written in non-technical language it is intended to be of interest also to educated readers generally.
Author : Theodore Evelyn Reece Phillips
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Hutchinson's Splendour of the Heavens written by Theodore Evelyn Reece Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen ní Mheallaigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108483038
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination written by Karen ní Mheallaigh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for readers who are fascinated by the Moon and the earliest speculations about life on other worlds. It takes the reader on a journey from the earliest Greek poetry, philosophy and science, through Plutarch's mystical doctrines to the thrilling lunar adventures of Lucian of Samosata.
Author : James Denholm Van Trump
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh written by James Denholm Van Trump and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Dickson White
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Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book The Warfare of Science written by Andrew Dickson White and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carolyn J. Boulter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462098336
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Darwin-Inspired Learning written by Carolyn J. Boulter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Darwin has been extensively analysed and written about as a scientist, Victorian, father and husband. However, this is the first book to present a carefully thought out pedagogical approach to learning that is centered on Darwin’s life and scientific practice. The ways in which Darwin developed his scientific ideas, and their far reaching effects, continue to challenge and provoke contemporary teachers and learners, inspiring them to consider both how scientists work and how individual humans ‘read nature’. Darwin-inspired learning, as proposed in this international collection of essays, is an enquiry-based pedagogy, that takes the professional practice of Charles Darwin as its source. Without seeking to idealise the man, Darwin-inspired learning places importance on: • active learning • hands-on enquiry • critical thinking • creativity • argumentation • interdisciplinarity. In an increasingly urbanised world, first-hand observations of living plants and animals are becoming rarer. Indeed, some commentators suggest that such encounters are under threat and children are living in a time of ‘nature-deficit’. Darwin-inspired learning, with its focus on close observation and hands-on enquiry, seeks to re-engage children and young people with the living world through critical and creative thinking modeled on Darwin’s life and science.
Author : Walter Bagehot
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Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Works of Walter Bagehot ... written by Walter Bagehot and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Lewis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824815820
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (158 download)
Download or read book We, the Navigators written by David Lewis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during recent decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and material about navigation systems in Indonesia, Siberia, and the Indian Ocean.
