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by Thomas Bell
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This workbook, with 50 quiz questions, covers the following topics:
Matter, Light, Energy, Life Science, and Earth Science
If you are homeschooling (or if you are just trying to get extra practice for your child), then you already know...
SCIENCE
THE FAILED HYPOTHESIS
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Subaltern notable – built on the work of the great astronomers Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus (who took the details of Ptolemy, and found a way to look at the same construction from a slightly different perspective and discover that the Earth is not the center of the universe) and Johannes Kepler...
A History of Science in Society
From Philosophy to Utility, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack trace the history of science through its continually changing place in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make...
Creation or Evolution?
Origin of Species in Light of Science’S Limitations and Historical Records
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Were humans created, or did they evolve? This debate continues to rage between science and religion. In Creation or Evolution?, author Michael Ebifegah examines these two worldviews within the framework of science..
He examines the constraints of science as an explanatory framework for the...
by Edward J. Larson, Michael Ruse
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A captivating historical survey of the key debates, questions, and controversies at the intersection of science and religion Throughout history, scientific discovery has clashed with religious dogma, creating conflict, controversy, and sometimes violent dispute. In this enlightening and accessible volume,...
Galileo's Mistake
A New Look at the Epic Confrontation between Galileo and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
A provocative reexamination of Galileo’s prosecution by the Catholic Church—one of the great turning points in the history of science.
The modern understanding of the notorious 1633 trial of Galileo Galilei is that of Science and Reason persecuted by Ignorance and Superstition—of Galileo...
Curiosity
How Science Became Interested in Everything
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science—that it’s not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet there was a time when curiosity was condemned. Neither...
by Jacob Bronowski
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Jacob Bronowski was, with Kenneth Clarke, the greatest popularizer of serious ideas in Britain between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s. Trained as a mathematician, he was equally at home with painting and physics, and wrote a series of brilliant books that tried to break down the barriers between...
Scientific Babel
How Science Was Done Before and After Global English
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise,...
Acolytes of Nature
Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern science date back centuries, the category of “science” itself is a relative novelty. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean “science,” naturwissenschaft, was not even included...
Great Feuds in Science
Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
The dramatic stories of ten historic feuds: How they altered the course of discovery-and shaped the modern world
Hall Hellman tells the lively stories of ten of the most outrageous and intriguing disputes from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Bringing the cataclysmic clash of ideas and...
Mind Over Matter
Conversations with the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2004
“Ruminations on every scientific subject over the sun—and plenty beyond it”—from the bestselling author of The Universe and the Teacup (The Boston Globe).
A San Jose Mercury News Best Book of the Year
A recipient of the American Institute of Physics Award for Best Science Writer,...
by Brian Keating
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
**A Forbes, Physics Today, Science News, and Science Friday Best Science Book Of 2018
The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries, derailed by the lure of the Nobel Prize.**
What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers...
by William Haloupek
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
This is one of a planned series called Calculations for Science Fiction Writers. Later chapters will include a relativistic version of this one, and others on circular orbits, elliptical orbits rotational dynamics, and more. For those writers who want to get the details right!
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