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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... motion . He chose , instead , to write Astronomia Nova . Galileo could have stopped with the announcements of his great discoveries ; but he , apparently , felt compelled to write his Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences . And the ...
... motion . He chose , instead , to write Astronomia Nova . Galileo could have stopped with the announcements of his great discoveries ; but he , apparently , felt compelled to write his Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences . And the ...
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... motion of the planet Mercury from the pre- dictions based on Newtonian laws indicated and later 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 ...
... motion of the planet Mercury from the pre- dictions based on Newtonian laws indicated and later 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 ...
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... motion is as natural as rest and that deviation from such motion must imply a force . If , then , the moon were relieved of all forces , it would leave its orbit and go off along the instantaneous tangent to the orbit . Conse- quently ...
... motion is as natural as rest and that deviation from such motion must imply a force . If , then , the moon were relieved of all forces , it would leave its orbit and go off along the instantaneous tangent to the orbit . Conse- quently ...
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... motions in the solar system . Newton himself pointed out many of their chief consequences . To mention only two of ... motion of the planet Mer- cury cannot be fully accounted for on Newtonian theory . Departures are found in the sense ...
... motions in the solar system . Newton himself pointed out many of their chief consequences . To mention only two of ... motion of the planet Mer- cury cannot be fully accounted for on Newtonian theory . Departures are found in the sense ...
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... motions of microscopic colloidal particles in solution also account for the motions of stars in clusters . This basic identity of the two problems , which is far - THE SCIENTIST / 7.
... motions of microscopic colloidal particles in solution also account for the motions of stars in clusters . This basic identity of the two problems , which is far - THE SCIENTIST / 7.
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