Huygens The Man Behind The Principle
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Huygens The Man Behind The Principle
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Author : C. D. Andriesse
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-08-25
Huygens The Man Behind The Principle written by C. D. Andriesse and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Huygens: The Man Behind the Principle is the story of the great seventeenth-century Dutch mathematician and physicist, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695). As the first complete biography ever written this book describes in detail how Huygens arrived at discoveries and inventions that are often wrongly ascribed to Newton. Huygens played a key role in the 'scientific revolution', and the Huygens Principle on the wave theory of light helped establish his reputation. The discovery of Saturn's rings and the invention of the pendulum clock made him so famous that he was invited to be the first director of the French Academy of Science, but his life as director teetered on the edge of powerlessness. Despite Huygens' many achievements no complete biography has previously been published in English. This book gives scientists and historians the opportunity to learn more about all aspects of Huygens' life while bringing his story to a wider audience.
The General Theory Of Behaviour
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Author : David F Marks
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2025-04-28
The General Theory Of Behaviour written by David F Marks and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-28 with Psychology categories.
This ground-breaking book presents a revolutionary new synthesis for the science of mind and behaviour. The book explains how behaviour and mental processes are unified within a single system of psychological homeostasis. A new Law of Equilibrium holds that mind and behaviour persistently strive towards safety, security and stability. The book creates a unified approach for the entire psychology discipline free from the divisions of a problematic past. The author and a select group of highly qualified contributors present psychology as a full-blooded natural science with axioms, laws and empirically supported principles. Any person and any library with an interest in how the mind works will find here a fascinating story and gripping analyses of motivation, feelings, emotions, habits, addictions, stress, altruism, well-being, trauma, paranormal experiences, waking and sleep. The volume catalogues unprecedented levels of empirical support for a psychological theory with a 97.4 percent rate of prediction from an array of well-documented contributions.
The Perraults
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Author : Oded Rabinovitch
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-15
The Perraults written by Oded Rabinovitch and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-15 with History categories.
In The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and rapidly changing world of early modern France. Today, the Perraults are best remembered for their canonical fairy tales, such as "Cinderella" and "Puss in Boots," most often attributed to Charles Perrault, one of the brothers. While the writing of fairy tales may seem a frivolous enterprise, it was, in fact, linked to the cultural revolution of the seventeenth century, which paved the way for the scientific revolution, the rise of "national literatures," and the early Enlightenment. Rabinovitch argues that kinship networks played a crucial, yet unexamined, role in shaping the cultural and intellectual ferment of the day, which in turn shaped kinship and the social history of the family. Through skillful reconstruction of the Perraults’ careers and networks, Rabinovitch portrays the world of letters as a means of social mobility. He complicates our understanding of prominent institutions, such as the Academy of Sciences, Versailles, and the salons, as well as the very notions of authorship and court capitalism. The Perraults shows us that institutions were not simply rigid entities, embodying or defining intellectual or literary styles such as Cartesianism, empiricism, or the purity of the French language. Rather, they emerge as nodes that connect actors, intellectual projects, family strategies, and practices of writing.
Reading The Book Of Nature In The Dutch Golden Age 1575 1715
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-10-25
Reading The Book Of Nature In The Dutch Golden Age 1575 1715 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-25 with History categories.
The conviction that Nature was God's second revelation played a crucial role in early modern Dutch culture. This book offers a fascinating account on how Dutch intellectuals contemplated, investigated, represented and collected natural objects, and how the notion of the 'Book of Nature' was transformed.
The Institutionalization Of Science In Early Modern Europe
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-11-26
The Institutionalization Of Science In Early Modern Europe written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with Business & Economics categories.
This volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe—including the Accademia del Cimento in Florence; the Royal Society in London; the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris; and the Academia naturae curiosorum in Schweinfurt. The essays detail the multiple backgrounds that prompted seventeenth-century savants—from Italy to England, and from Poland to Portugal—to establish new forms of scientific organizations, in which to institutionalize collaborative research as well as modes of communication with like-minded individuals and associations.
The Scientific Background To Modern Philosophy
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Author : Michael R. Matthews
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2022-11-21
The Scientific Background To Modern Philosophy written by Michael R. Matthews and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-21 with Philosophy categories.
Through a collection of works from key thinkers in natural philosophy, the second edition of The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy illuminates the central role scientific writing played in developing modern philosophical thought. This revised and expanded edition includes many new translations and incorporates works by foundational eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thinkers not in the first edition, including selections from works by Jean-Baptiste, le Rond d’Alembert, Denis Diderot, Émilie Du Châtelet, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joseph Priestley, Immanuel Kant, Carl Linnaeus, William Paley, and Charles Robert Darwin. These new additions provide students with a more comprehensive understanding of the scientific context in which the major philosophical works of the modern era were written and complement the selections from works by Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Robert Boyle, Christiaan Huygens, and Isaac Newton that are retained from the first edition.
Classical And Modern Diffraction Theory
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Author : Kamill Klem-Musatov
language : en
Publisher: SEG Books
Release Date : 2016-06-30
Classical And Modern Diffraction Theory written by Kamill Klem-Musatov and has been published by SEG Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-30 with Science categories.
Providing geophysicists with an in-depth understanding of the theoretical and applied background for the seismic diffraction method, “Classical and Modern Diffraction Theory” covers the history and foundations of the classical theory and the key elements of the modern diffraction theory. Chapters include an overview and a historical review of classical theory, a summary of the experimental results illustrating this theory, and key principles of the modern theory of diffraction; the early cornerstones of classical diffraction theory, starting from its inception in the 17th century and an extensive introduction to reprinted works of Grimaldi, Huygens, and Young; details of the classical theory of diffractions as developed in the 19th century and reprinted works of Fresnel, Green, Helmholtz, Kirchhoff, and Rayleigh; and the cornerstones of the modern theory including Keller’s geometrical theory of diffraction, boundary-layer theory, and super-resolution. Appendices on the Cornu spiral and Babinet’s principle are also included.
Telling The Time In British Literature 1675 1830
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Author : Marcus Tomalin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-03-27
Telling The Time In British Literature 1675 1830 written by Marcus Tomalin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary critics, this book adopts a radically new approach to the subject. Taking inspiration from recent revisionist accounts of the horological practices of the age, as well as current trends in ecocriticism, historical prosody, sensory history, social history, and new materialism, it offers a pioneering investigation of themes that have never previously received sustained critical scrutiny. Specifically, it explores how the essayists, poets, playwrights, and novelists of the period meditated deeply upon the physical form, social functions, and philosophical implications of particular time-telling objects. Consequently, each chapter considers a different device – mechanical watches, pendulums, sandglasses, sundials, flowers, and bells – and the literary responses of significant figures such as Alexander Pope, Anne Steele, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, and William Hazlitt are carefully examined.
The Reformation Of Common Learning
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Author : Howard Hotson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-24
The Reformation Of Common Learning written by Howard Hotson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-24 with History categories.
Ramism was the most innovative and disruptive educational reform movement to sweep through the international Protestant world in the latter sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. During the 1620s, the Thirty Years' War destroyed the network of central European academies and universities which had generated most of this innovation. Students and teachers, fleeing the conflict in all directions, transplanted that tradition into many different geographical and cultural contexts in which it bore are wide variety of interrelated fruit. Within the Dutch Republic, post-Ramist method played a crucial role in the rapid assimilation of Cartesianism into a network of thriving young academies and universities. From England to east-central Europe, the tradition was no less important in accelerating the reception of Baconianism. In the easternmost outpost of the Reformed world in Transylvania, the displaced tradition generated a final flourishing of philosophical innovation which exercised a formative influence on the young Leibniz. The failure of all of these efforts to assemble the fruits of this tradition into an encyclopaedic synthesis marks a major watershed in Western intellectual history. The Reformation of Common Learning brings together all of these aspects of the tradition in a manner which roots them in deeper historical developments and relates a series of far-flung and poorly understood developments together in new ways.
History Of The Plurality Of Worlds
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Author : Pierre Connes
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-06-24
History Of The Plurality Of Worlds written by Pierre Connes and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-24 with Science categories.
Modern research has demonstrated that many stars are surrounded by planets—some of which might contain the right conditions to harbor life. This has only reinforced a question that has been tormenting scientists, philosophers and priests since Antiquity: Are there other inhabited worlds beyond our own? This book analyzes the many ways that humans have argued for and depicted extraterrestrial life over the centuries. The first known texts about the subject date from as early as the 6th century BC. Since that time, countless well-known historical characters like Lucretius, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Cusanus, Bruno, Kepler, Descartes, and Huygens contributed to the debate; here, their lesser known opinions on the subject are studied in detail. It is often difficult for the modern mind to follow the thinking of our ancestors, which can only be understood when placed in the relevant context. The book thus extends its scope to the evolution of ideas about cosmology in general, as well as the culture in which these great thinkers wrote. The research is presented with the author's insights and humor, making this an easy and enjoyable read.