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Language: en
Pages: 650
Authors: Isaac Newton
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984-03-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The first volume of a three-volume complete edition of Newton's optical papers contains his Optical Lectures, delivered at Cambridge University between 1670 and
Retrieving Darwin's Revolutionary Idea
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Samuel Grove
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-12 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Darwin's discovery of evolution is as celebrated as Galileo's laws of motion or Newton's discovery of gravity. But this was only half the story. Not content to
A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Olivier Darrigol
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light. It is a clear and
The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: Volume 1, 1846-1862
Language: en
Pages: 836
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This is a comprehensive edition of Maxwell's manuscript papers published virtually complete and largely for the first time. Maxwell's work was of central import
Activity and Sign
Language: en
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Authors: Michael H.G. Hoffmann
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-06 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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The advancement of a scientific discipline depends not only on the "big heroes" of a discipline, but also on a community’s ability to reflect on what has been