Quirky sides of scientists : true tales of ingenuity and error from physics and astronomy / David R. Topper.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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2007.
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Contents:
- Tenacity and stubbornness: Einstein on theory and experiment
- Convergence or coincidence: ancient measurements of the sun and moon, how far?
- The rationality of simplicity: Copernicus on planetary motion
- A silence of scientists: Venus's brightness, Earth's precession, and the nebula in Orion
- Progress through error: stars and quasars, how big, how far?
- The data fit the model but the model is wrong: Kepler and the structure of the cosmos
- Art illustrates science: Galileo, a blemished moon, and a parabola of blood
- Ensnared in circles: Galileo and the law of projectile motion
- Aesthetics and holism: Newton on light, color, and music
- Missing one's own discovery: Newton and the first idea of an artificial satellite
- A change of mind: Newton and the comet(s?) of 1680 and 1681
- A well-nigh discovery: Einstein and the expanding universe.