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.)

The description for this book, The How and the Why, will be forthcoming.

Table of Contents

• 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