A Brief History of Science: As Seen Through the Development of Scientific InstrumentsConstable, 2001 - 425 من الصفحات From the beginnings of history, with gnomons and sundials, through to the twenty-first century and the 26-kilometre underground particle accelerator, the author describes the way that the design and production of scientific instruments has extended the frontiers of science. Man's desire to understand the universe has led to the making of more and more sophisticated instruments - first to record and measure (Arab numerals, standardised measures), to examine ever more minutely (the microscope, the lens, the prism), on through electromagnets, cathode tubes, thermometers, vacuum pumps, X-rays, counters and accelerators, semi-conductors and microprocessors, down to new instruments now being designed to observe matter at zero temperatures - presenting immense technological problems in the requirement for instruments that can operate in conditions where normal properties no longer hold. Accessible popular science |
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... Kepler's search for perfection . Kepler's achievement was immense , since , in working out the elliptical orbit for Mars , he had to reckon with the fact that all the observations were from another orbiting planet , the earth . This ...
... Kepler's death . The new Rudolphine Tables were more than thirty times as accurate as those available to Copernicus . They fitted Kepler's three laws to a degree of accuracy which allowed little room for disputing their validity . - By ...
... Kepler's third law ( see page 44 ) into a formula for centrifugal force recently published by Christiaan Huygens . ( In fact Wren had already suggested this as a possible solution in a conversation with Newton in 1677.5 ) At a meeting ...
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From the mastery of fire to science in antiquity | 1 |
Copernicus to Newton | 35 |
Science technology and communication | 77 |
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