The How and the Why / / David Park.
The description for this book, The How and the Why, will be forthcoming.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1988 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (530 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on References -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 What Is the World? -- CHAPTER 2 HOW Is It Built? -- CHAPTER 3 How Should We Think About It? -- CHAPTER 4 The Sky Is a Machine -- CHAPTER 5 The Christian Cosmos -- CHAPTER 6 What Are These Things I See? -- CHAPTER 7 The Wider Shores of Knowledge -- CHAPTER 8 Illumination -- CHAPTER 9 The Spheres Are Broken -- CHAPTER 10 Influences -- CHAPTER 11 They Move According to Number -- CHAPTER 12 Time, Space, and Form -- CHAPTER 13 A World of Bronze and Marble -- CHAPTER 14 Two Theories of Relativity -- CHAPTER 15 Very Small and Far Away -- CHAPTER 16 Does It Make Sense? -- CHAPTER 17 Moving Down the Scale -- CHAPTER 18 And Now the Universe -- CHAPTER 19 Order and Law -- NOTE A Hero's Principle -- NOTE B Fermat's Principle -- NOTE C Newton's Theorem -- NOTE D Calculation of the Moon's Period -- NOTE E The Law of Areas -- NOTE F Elliptical Orbits -- NOTE G Derivation of Young's Formula -- NOTE H Of Time and the River -- NOTE I The Mass of a Moving Object -- NOTE J The Two-Slit Experiment in Quantum Mechanics -- NOTE K Quantum Correlations That Suggest Action at a Distance -- NOTE L The Troublesome Question of How Things Look -- NOTE M Theory of the Expanding Universe -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | The description for this book, The How and the Why, will be forthcoming. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780691221670 9783110442496 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780691221670?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | David Park. |