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ISBN 13 : 9780954833909
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (339 download)
Download or read book Huygens' Legacy written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul B. Scheurer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400928092
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Newton’s Scientific and Philosophical Legacy written by Paul B. Scheurer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the Proceedings of the International Colloqui um "Newton's Scientific and Philosophical Legacy", that was held at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands) from June 9th to 12th 1987 to celebrate the Tercentenary of the publication of Newton's Philo sophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1667). Although 1987 was a busy year for Newton scholars, we were happy that five of most prom inent among them were able to come to Nijmegen and speak on the vari ous aspects of Newton's thought. They are the Professors I. Bernard Cohen (Harvard), Gale Christianson (Indiana State), B.J. Dobbs (Northwestern), Richard H. Popkin (UCLA) and Mordechai Feingold (Boston University). No doubt, recent scholarship has put Newton's genius in a quite different perspective from the one that had come to make up what may be called Newtonian mythology. Although his achievements in the areas of mechanics, mathematics, and optics remain indisputed, Newton's scientific efforts were apparently entirely subordi nate to his religious beliefs. This volume has been divided into four parts, preceded by a Pream ble in which Prof. Christianson offers a vivid portrait of Newton as a per son. The first part deals with the science of Newton as he himself under stood that term. The second part considers the influence of Newton's work on later scientific developments. The third part deals primarily with the question of the methodological influence of Newton, and the last part with his more philosophical legacy. Two editorial remarks are due.
Author : C. D. Andriesse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521850902
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Huygens: The Man Behind the Principle written by C. D. Andriesse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huygens: The Man Behind the Principle is the story of the great seventeenth-century Dutch mathematician and physicist, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695). As the first complete biography ever written this book describes in detail how Huygens arrived at discoveries and inventions that are often wrongly ascribed to Newton. Huygens played a key role in the 'scientific revolution', and the Huygens Principle on the wave theory of light helped establish his reputation. The discovery of Saturn's rings and the invention of the pendulum clock made him so famous that he was invited to be the first director of the French Academy of Science, but his life as director teetered on the edge of powerlessness. Despite Huygens' many achievements no complete biography has previously been published in English. This book gives scientists and historians the opportunity to learn more about all aspects of Huygens' life while bringing his story to a wider audience.
Author : Erwin Hiebert
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319066021
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Helmholtz Legacy in Physiological Acoustics written by Erwin Hiebert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interactions between science and music in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. It examines and evaluates the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Shohé Tanaka, and Adriaan Fokker, leading physicists and physiologists who were committed to understanding crucial aesthetic components of the art of music, including the standardization of pitch and the implementation of various types of intonations. With a mixture of physics, physiology, and aesthetics, author Erwin Hiebert addresses throughout the book how just intonation came to intersect with the history of keyboard instruments and exert an influence on the development of Western music. He begins with the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, a leading nineteenth-century physicist and physiologist who not only made important contributions in vision, optics, electrodynamics and thermodynamics, but also helped advanced the field of music theory as well. The author traces the Helmholtzian trends of thought that become inherently more complex by reaching beyond the sciences to perform a bridge with aesthetics and the diverse ways in which the human mind interprets or is taught, in different cultures, to interpret and understand music. Next, the author explores the works of other key physicists and physiologists who were influenced by Helmholtz and added to his legacy. He examines Japanese music theory student Shohé Tanaka, who sought to design a harmonium that was not based on equal temperament but rather on just intonation. Dutch physicist Adriaan Daniel Fokker, who arranged for organs to be built based on 31-tones per octave, orchestrated concerts for these new instruments and even attempted to compose microtonal music, or music whose tonality is based on intervals smaller than the typical twelve semitones of Western music.
Author : Tijmen Jan Moser
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031461584
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Walking with Christiaan Huygens written by Tijmen Jan Moser and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan I. Israel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192599437
Total Pages : 1336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Spinoza, Life and Legacy written by Jonathan I. Israel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the years following his death. The boldest and most unsettling of the major early modern philosophers, Spinoza, had a much greater, if often concealed, impact on the international intellectual scene and on the early Enlightenment than philosophers, historians, and political theorists have conventionally tended to recognize. Europe-wide efforts to prevent the reading public and university students learning about Spinoza, the man and his work, in the years immediately after his death in 1677, dominated much of his early reception owing to the revolutionary implications of his thought for philosophy, religion, practical ethics and lifestyle, Bible criticism, and political theory. Nevertheless, contrary to what has sometimes been maintained, his general impact was immediate, very widespread, and profound. One of the main objectives of the book is to show how early and how deeply Leibniz, Bayle, Arnauld, Henry More, Anne Conway, Richard Baxter, Robert Boyle, Henry Oldenburg, Pierre-Daniel Huet, Richard Simon, and Nicholas Steno, among many others, were affected by and led to wrestle with his principal ideas. There have been surprisingly few biographies of Spinoza, given his fundamental importance in intellectual history and history of philosophy, Bible criticism, and political thought. Jonathan I. Israel has written a biography which provides more detail and context about Spinoza's life, family, writings, circle of friends, highly unusual career and networking, and early reception than its predecessors. Weaving the circumstances of his life and thought into a detailed biography has also led to several notable instances of nuancing or revising our notions of how to interpret certain of his assertions and philosophical claims, and how to understand the complex international reaction to his work during his life-time and in the years immediately following his death.
Author : Royal Society (Great Britain)
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Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Newton's Principia and Its Legacy written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth Mondschein
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421438283
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book On Time written by Kenneth Mondschein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An approachable, accessible history of timekeeping and the impact of the increasing precision and accuracy of time on humanity. Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time since the Middle Ages. In On Time, Ken Mondschein explores the paired development of concepts and technologies of timekeeping with human thought. Without clocks, he argues, the modern world as we know it would not exist. From the astronomical timekeeping of the ancient world to the tower clocks of the Middle Ages to the seagoing chronometer, the quartz watch, and the atomic clock, greater precision and accuracy have had profound effects on human society—which, in turn, has driven the quest for further precision and accuracy. This quest toward automation—which gave rise to the Gregorian calendar, the factory clock, and even the near-disastrous Y2K bug—has led to profound social repercussions and driven the creation of the modern scientific mindset. Surveying the evolution of the clock from prehistory to the twenty-first century, Mondschein explains how both the technology and the philosophy behind Western timekeeping regimes came to take over the entire world. On Time is a story of thinkers, philosophers, and scientists, and of the thousand decisions that continue to shape our daily lives.
Author : Thanu Padmanabhan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303017509X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Dawn of Science written by Thanu Padmanabhan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lucid and captivating book takes the reader back to the early history of all the sciences, starting from antiquity and ending roughly at the time of Newton — covering the period which can legitimately be called the “dawn” of the sciences. Each of the 24 chapters focuses on a particular and significant development in the evolution of science, and is connected in a coherent way to the others to yield a smooth, continuous narrative. The at-a-glance diagrams showing the “When” and “Where” give a brief summary of what was happening at the time, thereby providing the broader context of the scientific events highlighted in that chapter. Embellished with colourful photographs and illustrations, and “boxed” highlights scattered throughout the text, this book is a must-read for everyone interested in the history of science, and how it shaped our world today.
Author : C. D. O'Malley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Leonardo's Legacy written by C. D. O'Malley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Alexander Thoegersen
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000631303
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music written by Peter Alexander Thoegersen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces polytempic polymicrotonality as a new musical aesthetic. It proposes music with more than one microtonal tuning system and discusses examples from the literature to give an historic framework showing that this tendency has been present throughout human musical history. Polytempo is a tool for which polymicrotonal structures can function in relief from its background, and it acts as a frame, or ground structure, that is multidimensional, akin to the advancement of perspective in Renaissance art. The book has historic significance as it is the only book of its category, or genre, in music that features polymicrotonality in music composition or production. It displays examples of music literature for musical precedence in this area, focusing on Charles Ives’s Universe Symphony, unfinished since 1925.
Author : Gaurav singh patel
Publisher : gaurav singh patel
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (852 download)
Download or read book the 33 written by Gaurav singh patel and published by gaurav singh patel. This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, I am going to tell you about the top 33 scientists and mathematicians of history in my opinion. I have placed in his honor his introduction, his journey, his school, his family background and finally his contribution to human history. Lastly I put some interesting unknown facts about his life. In all respects I have also placed it rank wise.
Author : Rajesh Thakur
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Chistiaan Huygens written by Rajesh Thakur and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michele Dougherty
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402092172
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Saturn from Cassini-Huygens written by Michele Dougherty and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of two volumes meant to capture, to the extent practical, the scienti?c legacy of the Cassini-Huygens prime mission, a landmark in the history of planetary exploration. As the most ambitious and interdisciplinary planetary exploration mission ?own to date, it has extended our knowledge of the Saturn system to levels of detail at least an order of magnitude beyond that gained from all previous missions to Saturn. Nestled in the brilliant light of the new and deep understanding of the Saturn planetary system is the shiny nugget that is the spectacularly successful collaboration of individuals, - ganizations and governments in the achievement of Cassini-Huygens. In some ways the pa- nershipsformedandlessonslearnedmaybethemost enduringlegacyofCassini-Huygens.The broad, international coalition that is Cassini-Huygens is now conducting the Cassini Equinox Mission and planning the Cassini Solstice Mission, and in a major expansion of those fruitful efforts, has extended the collaboration to the study of new ?agship missions to both Jupiter and Saturn. Such ventures have and will continue to enrich us all, and evoke a very optimistic vision of the future of international collaboration in planetary exploration. The two volumes in the series Saturn from Cassini-Huygens and Titan from Cassini- Huygens are the direct products of the efforts of over 200 authors and co-authors. Though each book has a different set of three editors, the group of six editors for the two volumes has worked together through every step of the process to ensure that these two volumes are a set.
Author : Vladimir I. Arnold
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034891296
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Huygens and Barrow, Newton and Hooke written by Vladimir I. Arnold and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the Russian by E.J.F. Primrose "Remarkable little book." -SIAM REVIEW V.I. Arnold, who is renowned for his lively style, retraces the beginnings of mathematical analysis and theoretical physics in the works (and the intrigues!) of the great scientists of the 17th century. Some of Huygens' and Newton's ideas. several centuries ahead of their time, were developed only recently. The author follows the link between their inception and the breakthroughs in contemporary mathematics and physics. The book provides present-day generalizations of Newton's theorems on the elliptical shape of orbits and on the transcendence of abelian integrals; it offers a brief review of the theory of regular and chaotic movement in celestial mechanics, including the problem of ports in the distribution of smaller planets and a discussion of the structure of planetary rings.
Author : Christiaan Huygens
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752308168
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Treatise On Light written by Christiaan Huygens and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Treatise On Light by Christiaan Huygens
Author : Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9781509893317
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Dutch Light written by Hugh Aldersey-Williams and published by Picador. This book was released on 2020 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.
