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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... quarks together . The strong interaction , which binds the component protons and neutrons together within the atomic nucleus , then resolves into interactions between quarks . Since , however , quarks can never be separated from the ...
... quarks and antiquarks and the exchange of gluons ( see page 349 ) . Quantum electrodynamics explains the interaction ... Quark together with the antiquark , the basic component in the structure of hadrons , and subject to the strong ...
... Quark and the Jaguar 347 quarks 346 , 349-50 , 354 , 355 , 396 , 401 quartz 16 , 202 quasars 314 , 396 R radar 313 radiation alpha radiation see alpha ( a ) particles / radiation beta radiation see beta ( B ) particles / radiation black ...
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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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