Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in ScienceUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.11.2013 - 180 Seiten "What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity."—Sir Hermann Bondi, Nature The late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, including The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes and, most recently, Newton's Principia for the Common Reader. |
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... confirmed the far - reaching changes in our concept of space and time implied by the general theory of relativity . In the same way , it is not impossible that the discovery by Hubble of the recession of extragalactic nebulae with ...
... confirmed the far - reaching changes in our concept of space and time implied by the general theory of relativity . In the same way , it is not impossible that the discovery by Hubble of the recession of extragalactic nebulae with ...
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... confirmed , is that of Halley . In 1705 Edmund Halley communicated to the Royal Society his memoir on Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis . This classic paper surveys the subject from the earliest times to those of Newton . Next 8 CHAPTER ONE.
... confirmed , is that of Halley . In 1705 Edmund Halley communicated to the Royal Society his memoir on Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis . This classic paper surveys the subject from the earliest times to those of Newton . Next 8 CHAPTER ONE.
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... confirmed by one which was roughly observed in 1456 . After which he adds : “ Whence I would venture to predict with confi- dence a return of the same anno scil in 1758. " Such was the origin of Halley's comet , the most celebrated of ...
... confirmed by one which was roughly observed in 1456 . After which he adds : “ Whence I would venture to predict with confi- dence a return of the same anno scil in 1758. " Such was the origin of Halley's comet , the most celebrated of ...
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... confirmed . In telling this story , I shall quote from a lecture by Eddington , who was chiefly responsible for the ... confirmation . I was at Príncipe . There the eclipse day came with rain , and cloud - covered sky , which almost took ...
... confirmed . In telling this story , I shall quote from a lecture by Eddington , who was chiefly responsible for the ... confirmation . I was at Príncipe . There the eclipse day came with rain , and cloud - covered sky , which almost took ...
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... confirmation from others would be sought . Three days after the eclipse , as the last lines of the calculation were reached , I knew that Einstein's theory had stood the test and that the new outlook of scientific thought must pre- vail ...
... confirmation from others would be sought . Three days after the eclipse , as the last lines of the calculation were reached , I knew that Einstein's theory had stood the test and that the new outlook of scientific thought must pre- vail ...
Inhalt
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Its Motivations 1985 | 15 |
Shakespeare Newton and Beethoven or Patterns of Creativity 1975 | 29 |
4 Beauty and the Quest for Beauty in Science 1979 | 59 |
Edward Arthur Milne His Part in the Development of Modern Astrophysics 1979 | 74 |
1982 Eddington The Most Distinguished Astrophysicist of His Time | 93 |
The Aesthetic Base of the General Theory of Relativity 1986 | 144 |
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A. L. Rowse A. S. Eddington aesthetic Arthur Stanley Eddington astrophysics atomic basic beauty Beethoven black holes black-holes Cambridge Chandrasekhar colliding waves Collision of impulsive consider context cosmical constant cosmological density derived described deSitter's Dirac discovery Einstein Einstein-Maxwell equations electron energy equilibrium Ernst equation example expeditions fact Fermi formulation G. H. Hardy gravitational waves Heisenberg helium hydrogen ideas impulsive gravitational waves interchanges x¹ J. J. Thomson Karl Schwarzschild Kepler Kerr later laws of gravitation lecture mass mathematical theory metric Milne Milne's motion nature Newton Newtonian theory observations Observatory orbit paper particles physical physicist plays polarizations prediction pressure problem pursuit of science quantum theory R. H. Fowler radiation remarkable result Royal Astronomical Society scientific scientist Shakespeare singularity solar solution space-time stars stellar temperature theory of gravitation theory of relativity thought tion Tycho universe Weyl Weyl's wrote x¹ and x²