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History

To Save the Phenomena An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo

Duhem Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780226169217, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
152 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between astronomy and physics-an issue still of importance today. He critiques the answers given by Greek thought, Arabic science, medieval Chri...

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Biography & Memoires

Physics

Newton Kosmos – Bios – Logos

Stepanova Irena

ISBN: PB: 9788024623795, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2015
170 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In 1936, following the sale of Newton's unpublished manuscripts at auction, the scientific world was shocked: it turned out that Newton's writings in physics and mathematics, often conside...

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Technology & Engineering

Physics

Probing the Sky with Radio Waves From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science

Yeang Chen-Pang

ISBN: PB: 9780226274393, ISBN: HB: 9780226015194, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 68 line illus.

By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. What no one could understand, however, was w...

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Physics

Nanoscience Giants of the Infinitesimal

Forbes Peter, Grimsey Tom

ISBN: HB: 9781906506230, GMC Group, Papadakis, May 2014
192 pp., 24x21.5 cm, colour illus.

In NanoScience:Giants of the Infinitesimal, award-winning science writer Peter Forbes and sculptor Tom Grimsey explore the amazing possibilities that nanotechnology offers us, from clean harvesting solar energy and finding cost-effective methods to d...

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Physics

Condensed Course of Quantum Mechanics

Cejnar Pavel

ISBN: PB: 9788024623214, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2014
216 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 136 mathematical drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This book represents a concise summary of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics for physics students at the university level. The text covers essential topics, from general mathematical formal...

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Physics

Biography & Memoires

Fermi Remembered

Cronin James W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226100883, ISBN: HB: 9780226121116, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 84 line drawings

Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement with the Manhattan Project and his work at Los Al...

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Physics

Popular Science

Large Hadron Collider Pop-Up Book Voyage to the Heart of Matter

Radevsky Anton, Sanders Emma

ISBN: HB: 9781906506414, GMC Group, Papadakis, November 2013
8 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, colour illus.

In this unique collaboration between CERN and renowned paper engineer Anton Radevsky, 7000 tonnes of metal, glass, plastic, cables and computer chips leap from the page in miniature pop-up, to tell the story of CERN's quest to understand the birth of...

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Popular Science

Pseudoscience Wars Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe

Gordin Michael D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101729, ISBN: HB: 9780226304427, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth, triggering widespread natural disasters and threatening the destruction of all life before settling...

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Physics

Astronomy

Time Travel and Warp Drives A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space

Everett Allen, Roman Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226045481, ISBN: HB: 9780226224985, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 9 line illus.

Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for...

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Philosophy

Physics

Unsimple Truths Science, Complexity, and Policy

Mitchell Sandra D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226006628, ISBN: HB: 9780226532622, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
160 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones

The world is complex, but acknowledging its complexity requires an appreciation for the many roles context plays in shaping natural phenomena. In "Unsimple Truths", Sandra Mitchell argues that the long-standing scientific and philosophical deference...

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