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Author : J. Drummond Robertson
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Author : Roger G. Newton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674266234
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book From Clockwork to Crapshoot written by Roger G. Newton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is about 6000 years old while physics emerged as a distinct branch some 2500 years ago. As scientists discovered virtually countless facts about the world during this great span of time, the manner in which they explained the underlying structure of that world underwent a philosophical evolution. From Clockwork to Crapshoot provides the perspective needed to understand contemporary developments in physics in relation to philosophical traditions as far back as ancient Greece. Roger Newton, whose previous works have been widely praised for erudition and accessibility, presents a history of physics from the early beginning to our day--with the associated mathematics, astronomy, and chemistry. Along the way, he gives brief explanations of the scientific concepts at issue, biographical thumbnail sketches of the protagonists, and descriptions of the changing instruments that enabled scientists to make their discoveries. He traces a profound change from a deterministic explanation of the world--accepted at least since the time of the ancient Greek and Taoist Chinese civilizations--to the notion of probability, enshrined as the very basis of science with the quantum revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century. With this change, Newton finds another fundamental shift in the focus of physicists--from the cause of dynamics or motion to the basic structure of the world. His work identifies what may well be the defining characteristic of physics in the twenty-first century.
Author : Daniel H. Wilson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385541791
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Clockwork Dynasty written by Daniel H. Wilson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ingenious thriller that follows a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries—from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse. "[A] fantastic hybrid of Highlander and The Terminator…. It reads like classic steampunk on steroids." —Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player Two Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. With her career and her life at stake, June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable traveler who exposes her to a reality she never imagined, as they embark on an around-the-world adventure and discover breathtaking secrets of the past… Russia, 1725: In the depths of the Kremlin, the tsar’s loyal mechanician brings to life two astonishingly humanlike mechanical beings. Peter and Elena are a brother and sister fallen out of time, possessed with uncanny power, and destined to serve great empires. Struggling to blend into pre-Victorian society, they are pulled into a legendary war that has raged for centuries. The Clockwork Dynasty seamlessly interweaves past and present, exploring a race of beings designed to live by ironclad principles, yet constantly searching for meaning. As June plunges deeper into their world, her choices will ultimately determine their survival or extermination. Richly-imagined and heart-pounding, Daniel H. Wilson’s novel expertly draws on his robotics and science background, combining exquisitely drawn characters with visionary technology—and riveting action.
Author : John Drummond Robertson
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Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Clockwork written by John Drummond Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Drummond Robertson
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ISBN 13 : 9780854097487
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (974 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Clockwork written by John Drummond Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derek J. de Solla Price
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass written by Derek J. de Solla Price and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass" by Derek J. de Solla Price. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : J. Drummond Robertson
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Total Pages : 359 pages
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Download or read book The Evolution of Clockwork written by J. Drummond Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Createspace Independent Pub
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544929361
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (293 download)
Download or read book On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass written by Createspace Independent Pub and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass by Price
Author : E. V. Odle
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387070934
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Clockwork Man written by E. V. Odle and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Price Derek J. De Solla (Derek Solla)
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318971404
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (714 download)
Download or read book On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass written by Price Derek J. De Solla (Derek Solla) and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Derek J. De Solla Price
Publisher : Tebbo
ISBN 13 : 9781486152407
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (524 download)
Download or read book On the Origin of Clockwork Perpetual Motion Devices and the Compass - The Original Classic Edition written by Derek J. De Solla Price and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Origin of Clockwork Perpetual Motion Devices and the Compass by Derek J. de Solla Price - The Original Classic Edition Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: For the mechanical clock, perhaps the greatest hindrance has been its treatment within a self-contained history of time measurement in which sundials, water-clocks and similar devices assume the natural role of ancestors to the weight-driven escapement clock in the early 14th century.1 This view must presume that a generally sophisticated knowledge of gearing antedates the invention of the clock and extends back to the Classical period of Hero and Vitruvius and such authors well-known for their mechanical ingenuities. ...The very full historical and technical description in this text enabled us to establish a glossary and basic understanding of the mechanism that later enabled us to interpret a whole series of similar, though less extensive texts, giving a history of prior development of such devices going back to the introduction of this type of escapement by I-Hsing and Liang Ling-tsan, in A.D. 725, and to what seems to be the original of all these Chinese astronomical machines, that built by Chang HEng ca. ...But this newer kind of globe, he said, on which were delineated the motions of the sun and moon and of those five stars which are called wanderers, or, as we might say, rovers [i. e., the five planets], contained more than could be shown on the solid globe, and the invention of Archimedes deserved special admiration because he had thought out a way to represent accurately by a single device for turning the globe, those various and divergent movements with their different rates of speed. ...In any case, the material supplied by the works ascribed to Archimedes, Hero, and Vitruvius, and the more certain evidence of the anaphoric clocks is sufficient to show that there was a strong classical tradition of such machines, a tradition that inspired, even if it did not directly influence, later developments in Islam and Europe on the one side, and, just possibly, China on the other. ...A self-revolving instrument [or swayanvaha yantra]: Make a wheel of light wood and in its circumference put hollow spokes all having bores of the same diameter, and let them be placed at equal distances from each other; and let them also be placed at an angle verging somewhat from the perpendicular: then half fill these hollow spokes with mercury; the wheel thus filled will, when placed on an axis supported by two posts, revolve of itself.
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Author : Philip Woodward
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Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Own Right Time written by Philip Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pendulum is a constant source of interest to scientists. Great and well-known inventors such as Galileo, Huygens, and Kelvin all devised mechanisms to maintain its even oscillations. Others such as John Harrison, Lord Grimthorpe, and William Shortt are known only in horological circles but contributed as much or more over three centuries. By writing a personal account of his own inventions and achievements in horology the author involves the reader in the history of precision time-keeping before the advent of atomic clocks and the quartz chip. Escapements, the mechanisms that drive pendulums, are a delight to the geometrical mind as well as a delicate and subtle challenge to the mechanical engineer. In their most refined form pendulum clocks not only keep astonishingly accurate time they are also sensitive enough to detect the ebb and flow of tides and even the ceaseless quivering of the Earth itself. Philip Woodward's deep knowledge of and passion for time-keeping mechanisms is evident throughout this highly readable and fascinating account of precision horology.
Author : Edward Dolnick
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062042262
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Clockwork Universe written by Edward Dolnick and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Edward Dolnick brings to light the true story of one of the most pivotal moments in modern intellectual history—when a group of strange, tormented geniuses invented science as we know it, and remade our understanding of the world. Dolnick’s earth-changing story of Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the birth of modern science is at once an entertaining romp through the annals of academic history, in the vein of Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything, and a captivating exploration of a defining time for scientific progress, in the tradition of Richard Holmes’ The Age of Wonder.
Author : John Drummond Robertson
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Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (714 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Clockwork written by John Drummond Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brandy Schillace
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681775824
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Clockwork Futures written by Brandy Schillace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airships and electric submarines, automatons and mesmerists—welcome to the wild world of steampunk. It is all speculative—or is it? Meet the intrepid souls who pushed Victorian technology to its limits and paved the way for our present age. The gear turns, the whistle blows, and the billows expand with electro-mechanical whirring. The shimmering halo of Victorian technology lures us with the stuff of dreams, of nostalgia, of alternate pasts and futures that entice with the suave of James Bond and the savvy of Sherlock Holmes. Fiction, surely. But what if the unusual gadgetry so often depicted as “steampunk” actually made an appearance in history? Zeppelins and steam-trains; arc-lights and magnetic rays: these fascinating (and sometimes doomed) inventions bounded from the tireless minds of unlikely heroes. Such men and women served no secret societies and fought no super-villains, but they did build engines, craft automatons, and engineer a future they hoped would run like clockwork. Along the way, however, these same inventors ushered in a contest between desire and dread. From Newton to Tesla, from candle and clockwork to the age of electricity and manufactured power, technology teetered between the bright dials of fantastic futures and the dark alleyways of industrial catastrophe. In the mesmerizing Clockwork Futures, Brandy Schillace reveals the science behind steampunk, which is every bit as extraordinary as what we might find in the work of Jules Verne, and sometimes, just as fearful. These stories spring from the scientific framework we have inherited. They shed light on how we pursue science, and how we grapple with our destiny—yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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