History & Philosophy
azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-07-06 | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]
CHAPTER 11 A PLANET NAMED GEORGE And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night … WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest, ...
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Astronomy & Space Science
April 3,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-04-25 | Author:Anthony Aveni [Aveni, Anthony]
First U.S. eclipse map, showing the path of the February 1831 eclipse. (The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1831 [Boston: Gray & Bowen], p. 13, ...
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History & Philosophy
April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-08-15 | Author:William H. Cropper
Wunderkind Werner Heisenberg, whose skill in the delivery of far-reaching theories brought matrix mechanics into the world (a few months before Schrödinger attended the birth of wave mechanics), was born ...
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Physics
April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-16 | Author:Alexander von Humboldt [von Humboldt, Alexander]
2. Concerning the Waterfalls of the Orinoco near Atures and Maypures Annotations and Additions 1. Across the peaceful arm of the ocean Between the 23rd degree of southern and the ...
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Biological Sciences
April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-20 | Author:Peter Watson [Watson, Peter]
How Continental Drift and the Age of the Earth Fit Together The theory of continental drift coincided with the other major advance made in geology in the early years of ...
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History & Philosophy
April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Randall, Lisa [Randall, Lisa]
CHAPTER TWELVE MEASUREMENT AND UNCERTAINTY Familiarity and comfort with statistics and probability help when evaluating scientific measurements, not to mention many of the difficult issues of today’s complex world. I ...
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Physics
April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-05-04 | Author:Adolfo Plasencia & Tim O'Reilly [Plasencia, Adolfo]
17 Remembering Our Future: The Frontier of Search Technologies Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Adolfo Plasencia Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Photograph by Adolfo Plasencia. [Control of the Internet] is not a matter of scale ...
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History & Philosophy
April 3,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Nikola Tesla [Tesla, Nikola]
Dr. Tesla’s First Automaton The idea of constructing an automaton, to bear out my theory, presented itself to me early but I did not begin active work until 1893, when ...
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History & Philosophy
April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 1996-05-25 | Author:Brian S. Baigrie
6.1 Grafton Elliott Smith’s australopithecine from Taungs, South Africa, 1925. Elliott Smith’s picture shows how the australopithecine from Taungs was not accepted as a human ancestor by the scientific establishment. ...
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History & Philosophy
April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Luke Dormehl [Dormehl, Luke]
The Positives of Techno-Replacement In 1589, the British inventor William Lee invented a stocking frame knitting machine. According to legend, he did this because the woman he was wooing showed ...
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History & Philosophy
April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:John Dvorak [Dvorak, John]
Today it is easy to trivialize what De La Rue and Secchi had done. But one must remember how little was known about the physical character of the Sun and ...
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Astronomy & Space Science
April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Alan Burdick
In 1892, William James, fifty years old and “disliking laboratory work,” he wrote, handed over the directorship of his Harvard psychology lab to Hugo Münsterberg, a German experimental psychologist whom ...
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Physics
April 3,2018 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:Alex Soojung-Kim Pang [PANG, ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM]
The first thing to observe is that it’s possible to use familiar technologies more mindfully. Sometimes you can cultivate this facility. Sometimes it sneaks up on you, and the best ...
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History & Philosophy
April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Michael McGirr [McGirr, Michael]
My heart always sinks within me when I hear the good housewife, of every class, say, “I assure you the bed has been well slept in,” and one can only ...
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History & Philosophy
April 2,2018 )
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