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Eureka!: Physics of Particles, Matter and the Universe

Author: R.J Blin-Stoyle
ISBN: 0750304162
Publisher: Taylor & Francis         Place:
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Format: Hardcover         # Pages: 226
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Release: 1997
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This is an accessible introduction to the subject of physics, and how it underpins our understanding of the physical world today. Starting with an initial description of what physics represents from the micro- to the macroscopic, Roger Blin-Stoyle takes the reader on a tour of Newton's Laws, the nature of matter, explaining how the physical world works and how physics may affect our future understanding. The treatment avoids detailed mathematics, and at all times relates the concepts introduced to the reader's everyday experience. The author makes effective use of simple, line drawings to illustrate the concepts introduced. Topics are presented with clarity and precision. The author's enthusiasm for his subject, and his desire to make it comprehensible to the widest possible audience are evident. It is a good foundation for exploring the more exotic aspects of physics, as presented by, for example, Close, Davies and Hawking. Suggestions for further reading are included as an appendix.


 

FROM ATOMS TO QUARKS

Author: James Trefil
ISBN: 0385473362
Publisher: Anchor         Place:
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Format: Paperback         # Pages: 255
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Release: 1994
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Galileo's Daughter : A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

Author: Dava Sobel
ISBN: 0140280553
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)         Place:
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Format: Paperback         # Pages: 432
Reader Rating: 4.0 (211 votes)
Release: 2000
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Summary: Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief--that the earth revolved around the sun. But did you know he had a daughter? In "Galileo's Daughter", Dava Sobel (author of the bestselling "Longitude") tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly attached to me." Their loving correspondence revealed much about their world: the agonies of the bubonic plague, the hardships of monastic life, even Galileo's occasional forgetfulness ("The little basket, which I sent you recently with several pastries, is not mine, and therefore I wish you to return it to me").
While Galileo tangled with the Church, Maria Celeste--whose adopted name was a tribute to her father's fascination with the heavens--provided moral and emotional support with her frequent letters, approving of his work because she knew the depth of his faith. As Sobel notes, "It is difficult today ... to see the Earth at the center of the Universe. Yet that is where Galileo found it." With her fluid prose and graceful turn of phrase, Sobel breathes life into Galileo, his daughter, and the earth-centered world in which they lived. "--Sunny Delaney"


 

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