The How and the WhyPrinceton University Press, 10 Kas 2020 - 530 sayfa The description for this book, The How and the Why, will be forthcoming. |
İçindekiler
What Is the World? | 3 |
How Is It Built? | 24 |
How Should We Think About It? | 32 |
The Sky Is a Machine | 54 |
The Christian Cosmos | 78 |
What Are These Things I See? | 95 |
The Wider Shores of Knowledge | 109 |
Illumination | 124 |
Order and Law | 387 |
Heros Principle | 407 |
Fermats Principle | 408 |
Newtons Theorem | 409 |
Calculation of the Moons Period | 411 |
The Law of Areas | 412 |
Elliptical Orbits | 414 |
Derivation of Youngs Formula | 417 |
The Spheres Are Broken | 142 |
Influences | 170 |
They Move According to Number | 202 |
Time Space and Form | 224 |
A World of Bronze and Marble | 243 |
Two Theories of Relativity | 275 |
Very Small and Far Away | 305 |
Does It Make Sense? | 334 |
Moving Down the Scale | 352 |
And Now the Universe | 372 |
Of Time and the River | 418 |
The Mass of a Moving Object | 419 |
The TwoSlit Experiment in Quantum Mechanics | 420 |
Quantum Correlations That Suggest Action at a Distance | 423 |
The Troublesome Question of How Things Look | 425 |
Theory of the Expanding Universe | 427 |
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Diğer baskılar - Tümünü görüntüle
The how and the why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical Theory David Park Sınırlı önizleme - 1990 |
The how and the why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical Theory David Park Sınırlı önizleme - 1990 |
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