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Quirky Sides Of Scientists
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Author : David R Topper
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-08-03
Quirky Sides Of Scientists written by David R Topper and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-03 with Science categories.
These historical narratives of scientific behavior reveal the often irrational way scientists arrive at and assess their theories. There are stories of Einstein’s stubbornness leading him to reject a correct interpretation of an experiment and miss an important deduction from his own theory, and Newton missing the important deduction from one of his most celebrated discoveries. This enlightening book clearly demonstrates that the greatest minds throughout history arrived at their famous scientific theories in very unorganized ways and they often did not fully grasp the significance and implications of their own work.
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Author : David R Topper
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-07-10
Quirky Sides Of Scientists written by David R Topper and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-10 with Science categories.
These historical narratives of scientific behavior reveal the often irrational way scientists arrive at and assess their theories. There are stories of Einstein’s stubbornness leading him to reject a correct interpretation of an experiment and miss an important deduction from his own theory, and Newton missing the important deduction from one of his most celebrated discoveries. This enlightening book clearly demonstrates that the greatest minds throughout history arrived at their famous scientific theories in very unorganized ways and they often did not fully grasp the significance and implications of their own work.
The Personality Of Henry Cavendish A Great Scientist With Extraordinary Peculiarities
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Author : Russell McCormmach
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2014-03-11
The Personality Of Henry Cavendish A Great Scientist With Extraordinary Peculiarities written by Russell McCormmach and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-11 with Science categories.
Profiles the eminent 18th century natural philosopher Henry Cavendish, best known for his work in chemistry and physics and one of the most baffling personalities in the history of science. In these chapters we are introduced to the psychology of science and of scientists and we learn about Cavendish’s life and times. His personality is examined from two perspectives: one is that he had a less severe form of autism, as has been claimed; the other is that he was eccentric and a psychological disorder was absent. Henry Cavendish lived a life of science, possibly more completely than any other figure in the history of science: a wealthy aristocrat, he became a dedicated scientist. This study brings new information and a new perspective to our understanding of the man. The scientific and non-scientific sides of his life are brought closer together, as the author traces topics including his appearance, speech, wealth, religion and death as well as Cavendish’s life of natural philosophy where objectivity and accuracy, writing and recognition all played a part. The author traces aspects of Cavendish’s personality, views and interpretations of him, and explores notions of eccentricity and autism before detailing relevant aspects of the travels made by our subject. The author considers the question “How do we talk about Cavendish?” and provides a useful summary of Cavendish’s travels. This book will appeal to a wide audience, from those interested in 18th century history or history of science, to those interested in incidences of autism in prominent figures from history. This volume contains ample relevant illustrations, several interesting appendices and it includes a useful index and bibliography.
The Knowledge Machine How Irrationality Created Modern Science
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Author : Michael Strevens
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2020-10-13
The Knowledge Machine How Irrationality Created Modern Science written by Michael Strevens and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Science categories.
“The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise.” —Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex A paradigm-shifting work, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. • Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics—for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe? In a groundbreaking work that blends science, philosophy, and history, leading philosopher of science Michael Strevens answers these challenging questions, showing how science came about only once thinkers stumbled upon the astonishing idea that scientific breakthroughs could be accomplished by breaking the rules of logical argument. Like such classic works as Karl Popper’s The Logic of Scientific Discovery and Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine grapples with the meaning and origins of science, using a plethora of vivid historical examples to demonstrate that scientists willfully ignore religion, theoretical beauty, and even philosophy to embrace a constricted code of argument whose very narrowness channels unprecedented energy into empirical observation and experimentation. Strevens calls this scientific code the iron rule of explanation, and reveals the way in which the rule, precisely because it is unreasonably close-minded, overcomes individual prejudices to lead humanity inexorably toward the secrets of nature. “With a mixture of philosophical and historical argument, and written in an engrossing style” (Alan Ryan), The Knowledge Machine provides captivating portraits of some of the greatest luminaries in science’s history, including Isaac Newton, the chief architect of modern science and its foundational theories of motion and gravitation; William Whewell, perhaps the greatest philosopher-scientist of the early nineteenth century; and Murray Gell-Mann, discoverer of the quark. Today, Strevens argues, in the face of threats from a changing climate and global pandemics, the idiosyncratic but highly effective scientific knowledge machine must be protected from politicians, commercial interests, and even scientists themselves who seek to open it up, to make it less narrow and more rational—and thus to undermine its devotedly empirical search for truth. Rich with illuminating and often delightfully quirky illustrations, The Knowledge Machine, written in a winningly accessible style that belies the import of its revisionist and groundbreaking concepts, radically reframes much of what we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world.
How Einstein Created Relativity Out Of Physics And Astronomy
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Author : David Topper
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-09-27
How Einstein Created Relativity Out Of Physics And Astronomy written by David Topper and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-27 with Science categories.
This book tracks the history of the theory of relativity through Einstein’s life, with in-depth studies of its background as built upon by ideas from earlier scientists. The focus points of Einstein’s theory of relativity include its development throughout his life; the origins of his ideas and his indebtedness to the earlier works of Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Mach and others; the application of the theory to the birth of modern cosmology; and his quest for a unified field theory. Treading a fine line between the popular and technical (but not shying away from the occasional equation), this book explains the entire range of relativity and weaves an up-to-date biography of Einstein throughout. The result is an explanation of the world of relativity, based on an extensive journey into earlier physics and a simultaneous voyage into the mind of Einstein, written for the curious and intelligent reader.
The Subjective Side Of Science
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Author : Ian I. Mitroff
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Release Date : 1974
The Subjective Side Of Science written by Ian I. Mitroff and has been published by Elsevier Science & Technology this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Science categories.
Einstein For Anyone A Quick Read 2nd Edition
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Author : David Topper
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2020-10-06
Einstein For Anyone A Quick Read 2nd Edition written by David Topper and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book seeks to fill a gap: the need for a very short book on Albert Einstein that gives a brief but up-to-date story of his life and thoughts, with a short and simple explanation of what he contributed to 20th century physics. Here is the compact story of this famous scientist, from the smiling contrarian in his grade school picture to the nonconformist adult who refused to groom his hair. There is a chapter on his habitually thorny relationships with women and close relatives: his first love, his two wives, his parents and his children – none of which was a painless union. The birth of an illegitimate daughter, the estrangement of his sons after the divorce from his first wife, his ever controlling mother – all had a profound psychological effect on Einstein’s personality. Another chapter focuses on the young Jew struggling with his self-identify, who in adulthood was unwaveringly committed to social justice and democratic principles that he believed were rooted in Jewish ethical values. It started with his early flirtation with Orthodox Judaism, only to be vehemently rejected later when he became a science-obsessed teenager. His exposure to latent and overt anti-Semitism when he moved to Germany in 1914 led to his subsequent espousal (with misgivings) of the Zionist movement. When he moved to the USA in 1933 fleeing Nazi Germany, he was confronted with the endemic racism against African-Americans, an issue he spoke-out boldly against, as a supporter of the burgeoning civil rights movement. This work ignited the ire of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who had already opened a file on Einstein in 1932, because of his pacifist activities in Germany. When he moved to America, Hoover suspected him of being a Communist spy. Finally, there is the scientist who expressed his ideals through his radical ideas about the physical world, as he reworked our conceptions of space, time, and motion. The result was a new cosmic model of the universe that is still being developed further today. His commitment to an ordered and predictable universe was ultimately expressed in his final (but still unfulfilled) quest for a theory that unifies the forces of nature, what he called his unified field theory. Some non-scientific topics, not often found in biographies of Einstein (even the hefty tomes): • A serious consideration of his extensive ruminations on matters of politics and society. • His social efforts for the plight of Eastern European Jews after World War I, and the later work for refugees from Nazi Germany trying to immigrate to the USA. • A look at his close friendship with the African-American singer Paul Robeson, and others committed to civil rights. • The story of his acceptance and reception of an honorary degree from Lincoln University in May, 1946, the first all-black college in America. • His confrontation with the anti-Communist movement during the McCarthy era (especially Hoover and the FBI). • The key role the ideas of the 17th century Jewish philosopher Spinoza had on both Einstein’s theology and his scientific thinking. Some of the highlights of Einstein’s scientific pursuits found in this book: • A clear explanation, with helpful diagrams, of Einstein’s famous “thought experiments.” • The importance for Einstein of the interplay between theory and experiment in physics, as well as his practical side with real world technology. • His vacillation with and ultimate embrace of the role of abstract mathematics in his theory of relativity. • A clear explanation of the differences between Newton’s and Einstein’s ideas about gravity. • A non-technical account of the difference between Einstein’s and Bohr’s interpretations of quantum physics. • Perhaps the first elucidation for the layperson of Einstein’s obsession with and eventual abandonment of what he called Mach’s Principle. • How Einstein’s stubbornness (or chutzpah) both helped and hindered his endeavors in science. • A consideration of why he alone endlessly pursued his quest for a unified field theory. • The little known story of the Einstein-deHaas Effect. • The contrast in his later years between the public’s perception of Einstein the sage and icon of science with that of his fellow scientists, who generally saw him as an old fool chasing a pipedream. • Finally, the most recent confirmation of another of his predictions: the detection of gravitational waves, announced in February 2016.
Molecules With Silly Or Unusual Names
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Author : Paul W. May
language : en
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Release Date : 2008
Molecules With Silly Or Unusual Names written by Paul W. May and has been published by Imperial College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Humor categories.
This popular science book shows that chemists do have a sense of humor, and this book is a celebration of the quirky side of scientific nomenclature. Here, some molecules are shown that have unusual, rude, ridiculous or downright silly names. Written in an easy-to-read style, anyone OCo not just scientists OCo can appreciate the content. Each molecule is illustrated with a photograph and/or image that relates directly or indirectly to its name and molecular structure. Thus, the book is not only entertaining, but also educational.
Stupid Science
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Author : Leland Gregory
language : en
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Release Date : 2009-06-15
Stupid Science written by Leland Gregory and has been published by Andrews McMeel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-15 with Humor categories.
Consider these cases of misdirected human activity, each in the name of science: The Illinois Department of Conservation spent $180,000 to study the contents of owl vomit. Georgia State University psychology professor James Dabbs discovered in 1988 that trial lawyers have about 30 percent more testosterone in their bodies than normal people (regardless of gender). Dabbs stated in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology that high testosterone levels are often linked to aggressiveness and "antisocial behavior." We all knew that lawyers were full of something—now we know it's testosterone. What do stinky cheese and unclean feet have in common? They both attract mosquitoes according to a November 8, 1996 article from Reuters.
Quirky Science
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Author : Edward Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10-10
Quirky Science written by Edward Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-10 with categories.
Wonders Of Science: Mini-Book Series: Quirky Science: 21 July 2021 Quirky Science is the third book in the "Wonders of Science." series", and was written with the intention of showing a number of outstanding examples of what could be called quirky scientific principles & practices, which when looked at closely and critically examined seem impossible in both theory & practice, breaking all laws of science and seemingly impossible to be true. The concepts & ideas behind the five areas of scientific postulations & discoveries selected for study will convey the sentiments expressed above. Areas of Study: - (a) "Wave-Particle Duality", is usually defined in terms that it is a fundamental property of matter, whereby at one moment it appears as a particle, and yet at other times as a wave. Up to date, there has never been a definitive scientific explanation of how a particle of light can be both a particle and a waveform at the same time. Over the centuries there have been many scientific experiments carried out to determine what light is; and in equal measure, there have been convincing results showing that light is both a wave and a particle. (b) What is Quantum Theory? It is the theoretical basis of modern physics that explains the nature and behavior of matter and energy on the atomic & sub-atomic levels. The nature and behavior of matter & energy at that level is sometimes referred to as "Quantum Physics" or "Quantum Mechanics". According to this theory matter & energy are composed of tiny units of electromagnetic energy called quanta. Quantum Theory is used to explain such phenomena as the photoelectric effect. (c) E = mc2 is most properly the most famous equation in the world and made the originator of the equation an Albert Einstein Physicist & Nobel Laureate, one of the most famous and celebrated scientists of all time. The equation is instantaneously recognized by all those with just a minimum of scientific curiosity, and to this day is still printed on T-shirts and the like. Most people who are interested know the equation states that "energy equals mass times the speed of light squared". (d) Space-Time Continuum: Coming out of Einstein`s work on " General & Special Relativity " the concept of a "Space-Time Continuum " was born, initiated by Hermann Minkowski based on the work of his former student Albert Einstein. It is a mathematical model that joins space & time into a single idea. This space-time model has three dimensions of measurement plus one dimension of time.- now called "Minkowski Space" (e) Black Holes & Singularities: The first mention of the concept of a dark star, which could not be seen because gravity stopped light escaping to indicate its presence, was proposed by John Mitchell an English cleric back in 1783. He even suggested that it may be possible to discover its presence by looking at the behavior of stars whose orbit maneuvers suggested the presence of an unseen heavy object.