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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... Consider the supreme example of Newton . He discovered his laws of gravitation ( and much else ) while sojourning in Woolsthrope during the great plague . When some twenty years later , he undertook to write out afresh , for the benefit ...
... Consider the supreme example of Newton . He discovered his laws of gravitation ( and much else ) while sojourning in Woolsthrope during the great plague . When some twenty years later , he undertook to write out afresh , for the benefit ...
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... consider one further example . In 1926 Fermi and Dirac were led to a reformulation of the laws of statistical mechanics as they ap- plied to an electron gas and showed that departures from classical laws should be expected at high ...
... consider one further example . In 1926 Fermi and Dirac were led to a reformulation of the laws of statistical mechanics as they ap- plied to an electron gas and showed that departures from classical laws should be expected at high ...
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... consider in this group is Einstein's prediction of the deflection of light in a gravitational field and how it was later confirmed . In telling this story , I shall quote from a lecture by Eddington , who was chiefly responsible for the ...
... consider in this group is Einstein's prediction of the deflection of light in a gravitational field and how it was later confirmed . In telling this story , I shall quote from a lecture by Eddington , who was chiefly responsible for the ...
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... consider a third aspect of scientific investigations which is in a sense intermediate to the kinds I have already described . During the eighteenth century , the idealist philosopher Bishop Berkeley and his followers claimed that the ...
... consider a third aspect of scientific investigations which is in a sense intermediate to the kinds I have already described . During the eighteenth century , the idealist philosopher Bishop Berkeley and his followers claimed that the ...
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... consider- able numbers in the atmosphere of the sun . The question arises , “ Can we detect it ? " In order that we may do this , it is first necessary to know the manner in which the negative ion of hydrogen would absorb light and ...
... consider- able numbers in the atmosphere of the sun . The question arises , “ Can we detect it ? " In order that we may do this , it is first necessary to know the manner in which the negative ion of hydrogen would absorb light and ...
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