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Book Synopsis Visions of Discovery by : Raymond Y. Chiao
Download or read book Visions of Discovery written by Raymond Y. Chiao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-leading researchers, including Nobel Laureates, explore the most basic questions of science, philosophy, and the nature of existence.
Book Synopsis Seeing the Light by : Thomas DeGloma
Download or read book Seeing the Light written by Thomas DeGloma and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the distinctly social logic of awakening narratives - autobiographical stories people tell about having once been contained in a world of darkness and ignorance and subsequently awakening to an enlightened understanding of their experiences and situations. It analyses a wide variety of stories spanning roughly ten thousand years of history and pertaining to various philosophical, religious, political, scientific, psychological, and sexual subject matters.
Book Synopsis Empire of Light: by : Sidney Perkowitz
Download or read book Empire of Light: written by Sidney Perkowitz and published by Joseph Henry Press. This book was released on 1998-11-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Empire of Light, Sidney Perkowitz combines the expertise of a physicist with the vision of an art connoisseur and the skill of an accomplished writer to offer a unique view of the most fundamental feature of the universe: light. Empire of Light discusses the nature of light, how the eye sees, and how our understanding of these phenomena have emerged over the ages, including the role of light in the development of quantum physics. The author examines the making of electrical light and its integration into commerce, telecommunications, entertainment, medicine, warfare, and every other aspect of our daily lives. And he presents the role of light in the search for the beginning and the end of the universe, as astronomers with their instruments penetrate ever deeper into the sky. Visible light spans the spectrum between infrared and ultraviolet, but this book reaches across many other spectra as well--from the cave paintings at Lascaux to Mark Rothko's stark blocks of color in today's art museums, from Plato's speculation that the eye sends out rays to Ramon y Cajal's discovery that vision actually works in the opposite way, from Tycho Brahe's elegant antetelescope measurements of planet positions to the Hubble telescope's exquisite sensitivity to light from billions of light years away. What are the biological and neurological processes of perceiving visible light? How does a person typically scan a scene? Do you see red or blue the same way I do? What are our physiological reactions and emotional responses to light? Perkowitz explores these and many other fascinating questions, drawing together the experiences, achievements, and perspectives of a diverse cast of characters, including Galileo, Einstein, Newton, Van Gogh, and Edison. Empire of Light is written so that lay readers will readily grasp the scientific principles and science professionals will readily appreciate the human experience. It will impart new wonder to the daily experience of light in our world. Sidney Perkowitz is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics at Emory University. His work has appeared in national publications such as The Sciences, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect, and Technology Review.
Book Synopsis The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by : Seb Falk
Download or read book The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science written by Seb Falk and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History Magazine An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk. "Falk’s bubbling curiosity and strong sense of storytelling always swept me along. By the end, The Light Ages didn’t just broaden my conception of science; even as I scrolled away on my Kindle, it felt like I was sitting alongside Westwyk at St. Albans abbey, leafing through dusty manuscripts by candlelight." —Alex Orlando, Discover Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks. As medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky, they came to develop a vibrant scientific culture. In The Light Ages, Cambridge science historian Seb Falk takes us on a tour of medieval science through the eyes of one fourteenth-century monk, John of Westwyk. Born in a rural manor, educated in England’s grandest monastery, and then exiled to a clifftop priory, Westwyk was an intrepid crusader, inventor, and astrologer. From multiplying Roman numerals to navigating by the stars, curing disease, and telling time with an ancient astrolabe, we learn emerging science alongside Westwyk and travel with him through the length and breadth of England and beyond its shores. On our way, we encounter a remarkable cast of characters: the clock-building English abbot with leprosy, the French craftsman-turned-spy, and the Persian polymath who founded the world’s most advanced observatory. The Light Ages offers a gripping story of the struggles and successes of an ordinary man in a precarious world and conjures a vivid picture of medieval life as we have never seen it before. An enlightening history that argues that these times weren’t so dark after all, The Light Ages shows how medieval ideas continue to color how we see the world today.
Author :Mark Weston Publisher :Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing ISBN 13 :0884485471 Total Pages :34 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (844 download)
Book Synopsis Finding the Speed of Light: The 1676 Discovery that Dazzled the World (The History Makers Series) by : Mark Weston
Download or read book Finding the Speed of Light: The 1676 Discovery that Dazzled the World (The History Makers Series) written by Mark Weston and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirkus Star Junior Library Guild Gold Selection Mark Weston’s high-interest story and Rebecca Evans’s colorful graphics make scientific discovery the coolest thing this side of Jupiter. More than two centuries before Einstein, using a crude telescope and a mechanical timepiece, Danish astronomer Ole Romer measured the speed of light with astounding accuracy. How was he able to do this when most scientists didn’t even believe that light traveled? Like many paradigm-shattering discoveries, Romer’s was accidental. Night after night he was timing the disappearance and reappearance of Jupiter’s moon Io behind the huge, distant planet. Eventually he realized that the discrepancies in his measurements could have only one explanation: Light had a speed, and it took longer to reach Earth when Earth was farther from Jupiter. All he needed then to calculate light’s speed was some fancy geometry.
Book Synopsis The Discovery of the Universe by : Carolyn Collins Petersen
Download or read book The Discovery of the Universe written by Carolyn Collins Petersen and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the discoveries of observatories have unlocked the secrets of the Universe, from Stonehenge to Hubble.
Author :Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Publisher :Michael Imhof Verlag ISBN 13 :9783865688484 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (884 download)
Book Synopsis In the Light of Amarna by : Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung
Download or read book In the Light of Amarna written by Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung and published by Michael Imhof Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accompaniment to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin’s special exhibition celebrating the discovery of the Nefertiti bust in 1912, this catalog presents never-before-seen artifacts and objects from the Amarna period of Egyptian history. The book also explores religion, craftsmanship, daily life, and sculpture in Amarna and the world famous Nefertiti bust.
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Book Synopsis The Light of Discovery by : Toni Packer
Download or read book The Light of Discovery written by Toni Packer and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To read this book is to encounter the essence of our lives and our everyday concerns. Toni Packer shines her gentle light on fear, compassion, impermanence, attraction, prejudice, enlightenment, and much more as she invites us into our own light of discovery. As she says, "In truth we are not separate from each other, or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in silent wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness."
Book Synopsis And There was Light by : Rudolf Thiel
Download or read book And There was Light written by Rudolf Thiel and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Annual of scientific discovery, or yearbook of facts in science and art by :
Download or read book The Annual of scientific discovery, or yearbook of facts in science and art written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries by : Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
Download or read book Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries written by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani and published by London, Macmillan. This book was released on 1889 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries by : Leonard William King
Download or read book Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries written by Leonard William King and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Discovery of the Vital Principle by :
Download or read book The Discovery of the Vital Principle written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery from the Time of the Greeks to the Present Day by : Arabella B. Buckley
Download or read book A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery from the Time of the Greeks to the Present Day written by Arabella B. Buckley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book Annual of Scientific Discovery written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by :
Download or read book The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: