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Author : William Thomson Baron Kelvin
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Total Pages : 372 pages
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Author : Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9810216467
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Selected Papers, with Commentary, of Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme written by Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1994 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important papers of Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme are collected in this volume which also includes commentaries by G Brown and other articles relating to the life and work of Tony Skryme, R Dalitz, E Witten and others. Skyrme's work was brilliant, profound and surprisingly useful. He provided an original solution to the problem of constructing fermions from bosons, formulating the topological soliton model of the nucleon. His two-parameter model of effective interactions in nuclei has yielded a remarkably accurate description of nuclear structure. His à-particle model of nuclei gave deep insights into the structure of important and complicated excited states.This volume is a unique collection of Tony Skyrme's work. It is a must for all physicists in the high energy, nuclear and mathematical physics community.
Author : Charles Mollan
Publisher : Charles Mollan
ISBN 13 : 0860270556
Total Pages : 1892 pages
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Download or read book It's Part of What We Are - Volumes 1 and 2 - Volume 1: Richard Boyle (1566-1643) to John Tyndall (1820-1893); Volume 2: Samuel Haughton (18210-1897) to John Stewart Bell (1928-1990) written by Charles Mollan and published by Charles Mollan. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 1892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of more than 100 Irish scientists (or those with strong Irish connections), in the disciplines of Chemistry and Physics, including Astronomy, Mathematics etc., describing them in their Irish and international scientific, social, educational and political context. Written in an attractive informal style for the hypothetical 'educated layman' who does not need to have studied science. Well received in Irish and international reviews.
Author : Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691233853
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory written by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work in the philosophy of physical science is an incisive and readable account of the scientific method. Pierre Duhem was one of the great figures in French science, a devoted teacher, and a distinguished scholar of the history and philosophy of science. This book represents his most mature thought on a wide range of topics.
Author : Lord William Thomson Kelvin
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
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Download or read book Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light written by Lord William Thomson Kelvin and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1904 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108007678
Total Pages : 734 pages
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Download or read book Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light written by William Thomson, Baron Kelvin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lectures describing the problems in explaining light propagation which inspired Einstein's theory of special relativity.
Author : Melanie Frappier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136285997
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts written by Melanie Frappier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical devices or communication tools or are they an essential part of scientific practice? This volume surveys the current state of the debate and explores new avenues of research into the epistemology of thought experiments.
Author : Ernst Cassirer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000001113
Total Pages : 606 pages
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Download or read book The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 3 written by Ernst Cassirer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In his Phenomenology of Cognition, Cassirer provides a comprehensive and systematic account of the dynamic process involved in the whole of human culture as it progresses from the world of myth and its feeling of social belonging to the highest abstractions of mathematics, logic and theoretical physics. Cassirer engages with the most sophisticated and cutting-edge work in fields ranging from ethnology to classics, egyptology and assyriology to ethology, brain science and psychology to logic, mathematics and theoretical physics. His command of philosophy, literature, and the arts is superb. Echoing his work on Kant, Cassirer begins The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms with the problem posed by the meaning of being for philosophy since Plato. But Cassirer also shows that this problem gains new significance with Kant and with the development of modern culture. Cassirer weaves his conception of the development of knowledge into a broadly Kantian and German idealist dynamic-historical conception of significance and of experience that refuses to accept a fundamental opposition between literary, philosophical and scientific culture. In consequence of his great vision grounded in careful reflection and argument, Cassirer’s systematic conception of the Copernican cosmopolitan-cosmological revolution is still philosophically and scientifically unmatched in contemporary philosophy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the Pacific.” Pierre Keller, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, USA. This new translation makes Cassirer’s seminal work available to a new generation of scholars. Each volume includes a translator’s introduction by Steve G. Lofts, a foreword by Peter E. Gordon, a glossary of key terms, and an index.
Author : Ernst Cassirer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000398102
Total Pages : 1412 pages
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Download or read book The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms written by Ernst Cassirer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in twentieth-century philosophy. A great liberal humanist, his multi-faceted work spans the history of philosophy, the philosophy of science, intellectual history, aesthetics, epistemology, the study of language and myth, and more. Cassirer’s thought also anticipates the renewed interest in the origins of analytic and continental philosophy in the Twentieth Century and the divergent paths taken by the 'logicist' and existential traditions, epitomised by his now legendary debate in 1929 with the philosopher Martin Heidegger, over the question "What is the Human Being?" The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. It was first published in German in 1923, the third and final volume appearing in 1929. In it Cassirer presents a radical new philosophical worldview - at once rich, creative and controversial - of human beings as fundamentally "symbolic animals", placing signs and systems of expression between themselves and the world. This major new translation of all three volumes, the first for over fifty years, brings Cassirer's magnum opus to a new generation of students and scholars. Taken together, the three volumes of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms are a vital treatise on human beings as symbolic animals and a monumental expression of neo-Kantian thought. Correcting important errors in previous English editions, this translation reflects the contributions of significant advances in Cassirer scholarship over the last twenty to thirty years. Each volume includes a new introduction and translator's notes by Steve G. Lofts, a foreword by Peter E. Gordon, a glossary of key terms, and a thorough index.
Author : Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192588931
Total Pages : 534 pages
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Download or read book Civilization and the Culture of Science written by Stephen Gaukroger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values—and subsequently moral, political, and social ones—come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped and how they began, in turn, to shape those of society. The core nineteenth- and twentieth-century development is that in which science comes to take centre stage in determining ideas of civilization, displacing Christianity in this role. Christianity had provided a unifying thread in the study of the world, however, and science had to match this, which it did through the project of the unity of the sciences. The standing of science came to rest or fall on this question, which the book sets out to show in detail is essentially ideological, not something that arose from developments within the sciences, which remained pluralistic and modular. A crucial ingredient in this process was a fundamental rethinking of the relations between science and ethics, economics, philosophy, and engineering. In his engaging description of this transition to a scientific modernity, Gaukroger examines five of the issues which underpinned this shift in detail: changes in the understanding of civilization; the push to unify the sciences; the rise of the idea of the limits of scientific understanding; the concepts of 'applied' and 'popular' science; and the way in which the public was shaped in a scientific image.
Author : Crosbie Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521261739
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Energy and Empire written by Crosbie Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-26 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of 19th-century Britain, delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it.
Author : Raymond Flood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191528242
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy written by Raymond Flood and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Kelvin was one of the greatest physicists of the Victorian era. Widely known for the development of the Kelvin scale of temperature measurement, Kelvin's interests ranged across thermodynamics, the age of the Earth, the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, not to mention inventions such as an improved maritime compass and a sounding device which allowed depths to be taken both quickly and while the ship was moving. He was an academic engaged in fundamental research, while also working with industry and technological advances. He corresponded and collaborated with other eminent men of science such as Stokes, Joule, Maxwell and Helmholtz, was raised to the peerage as a result of his contributions to science, and finally buried in Westminster Abbey next to Newton. This book contains a collection of chapters, authored by leading experts, covering the life and wide-ranging scientific contributions made by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907).
Author : Mélanie Frappier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415885442
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts written by Mélanie Frappier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical devices or communication tools or are they an essential part of scientific practice? This volume surveys the current state of the debate and explores new avenues of research into the epistemology of thought experiments.
Author : Giora Hon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000030687
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Reflections on the Practice of Physics written by Giora Hon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines James Clerk Maxwell’s contributions to electromagnetism to gain insight into the practice of science by focusing on scientific methodology as applied by scientists. First and foremost, this study is concerned with practices that are reflected in scientific texts and the ways scientists frame their research. The book is therefore about means and not ends.
Author : Pierre Duhem
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872203082
Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science written by Pierre Duhem and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here, for the first time in English, are the philosophical essays - including the first statement of the "Duhem Thesis" - that formed the basis for Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, together with new translations of the historiographical essays presenting the equally celebrated "Continuity Thesis" by Pierre Duhem (1861-1916), a founding figure of the history and philosophy of science. Prefaced by an introduction on Duhem's intellectual development and continuing significance, here as well are important subsequent essays in which Duhem elaborated key concepts and critiqued such contemporaries as Henri Poincare and Ernst Mach. Together, these works offer a lively picture of the state of science at the turn of the century while addressing methodological issues that remain at the center of debate today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Wesley C. Salmon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691221480
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
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Author : Edward Robert Harrison
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674192713
Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book Darkness at Night written by Edward Robert Harrison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In tracing this story of discovery, astronomer and physicist Harrison explores the concept of infinite space, the structure and age of the universe, the nature of light, and other subjects that once were so perplexing.
