The How and the Why / / David Park.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Park, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (530 p.)
• 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
• 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.

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