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Golden mean to 5000 digits - Jerry Bonnell
Golden mean to 5000 digits - Jerry Bonnell
- Author: Jerry Bonnell
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
The golden section is a line segment sectioned into two according to the golden ratio. The total length a+b is to the longer segment a as a is to the shorter segment b. In mathematics and the arts, two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio...
My Inventions and Other Works - Nikola Tesla
My Inventions and Other Works - Nikola Tesla
- Author: Nikola Tesla
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Between February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the magazine Electrical Experimenter. The most famous of these works is a six part series titled My Inventions, which is an autobiographical account of Nikola Tesla's life...
Masters of Space - Walter Kellogg Towers
Masters of Space - Walter Kellogg Towers
- Author: Walter Kellogg Towers
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
This is the story of talking at a distance, of sending messages through space. It is the story of great men—Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, and others—and how, with the aid of men like Field, Vail, Catty, Pupin, the scientist, and others in both the...
The Story of Eclipses - George F. Chambers
The Story of Eclipses - George F. Chambers
- Author: George F. Chambers
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Solar eclipses have both frightened and fascinated humankind for thousands of years. At first believed to be caused by angry gods punishing the people on Earth, we now know that a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the...
The Martyrs of Science, or, the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler - David Brewster
The Martyrs of Science, or, the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler - David Brewster
- Author: David Brewster
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
“The martyrs of Science” gives a brief biography of Galileo, Brahe and Kepler. These three men played a pivotal role in the scientific revolution during the early modern period. This book throws light upon their lives, their scientific achievements,...
Easy Lessons in Einstein - Edwin E. Slosson
Easy Lessons in Einstein - Edwin E. Slosson
- Author: Edwin E. Slosson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Published in 1920, Slosson’s Easy Lessons in Einstein is one of the first popularizations of Einstein’s theory of relativity. This book is meant to convey to the general reader the ideas of relativity in non-mathematical terms, by the use of thought...
The New Physics and Its Evolution - Lucien POINCARÉ
The New Physics and Its Evolution - Lucien POINCARÉ
- Author: Lucien POINCARÉ
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
The end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century marked a new era in the study of physics. It seemed as though everything that was thought to be known was being called into question. This book attempts to summarize some of the most critical...
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 1: Astronomy - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 1: Astronomy - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Author: Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The first volume is on Astronomy written by Waldemar Kaempffert. This book briefly discusses the evolution of astronomical beliefs and the development of instruments and progress of...
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 3: Physics & Electricity - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 3: Physics & Electricity - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Author: Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The third volume is on physics written by George Matthew and on electricity written by Professor William J. Moore. The section on physics covers matter - analysis and properties, heat,...
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Agnes Mary CLERKE
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Agnes Mary CLERKE
- Author: Agnes Mary CLERKE
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century was thought to be Agnes Mary Clerke's greatest work. It covers developments made in the field of astronomy during the nineteenth century and is still used by scholars today who study the...
Practical Talks by an Astronomer - Harold JACOBY
Practical Talks by an Astronomer - Harold JACOBY
- Author: Harold JACOBY
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
The present volume has not been designed as a systematic treatise on astronomy. There are many excellent books of that kind, suitable for serious students as well as the general reader; but they are necessarily somewhat dry and unattractive, because...
Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel - Margaret HERSCHEL
Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel - Margaret HERSCHEL
- Author: Margaret HERSCHEL
- Genre: Memoirs / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scene during the late 18th and early 19th century. Sister of the well known William Herschel (he of the discovery...
Great Astronomers - Robert Stawell BALL
Great Astronomers - Robert Stawell BALL
- Author: Robert Stawell BALL
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astronomy. From the earliest ages the study of the stars has exercised the same fascination as it possesses at the...
Radioisotopes in Medicine - Earl W. PHELAN
Radioisotopes in Medicine - Earl W. PHELAN
- Author: Earl W. PHELAN
- Genre: Medical / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics / Life Sciences
Radioisotopes in Medicine is an educational booklet published in 1966 as part of the Understanding the Atom series by the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Written in clear language for the general public, the booklet covers the diagnostic and...
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds - Bernard Le Bovier de FONTENELLE
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds - Bernard Le Bovier de FONTENELLE
- Author: Bernard Le Bovier de FONTENELLE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Early Modern / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
This book is a popular science book written in the late 1600s. It is written as a series of conversations between a gallant philosopher and a countess, while walking in her garden and gazing at the stars. The philosopher explains the heliocentric...
Theory of Colours - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Theory of Colours - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Newton's observations on the optical spectrum were widely accepted but Goethe noticed the difference between the scientific explanation and the phenomena as experienced by the human eye. He did not try to explain this, but rather collected and...
The Flying Saucers are Real - Donald KEYHOE
The Flying Saucers are Real - Donald KEYHOE
- Author: Donald KEYHOE
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
The Flying Saucers are Real is a book that investigates numerous encounters between USAF fighters, personnel, and other aircraft, and UFOs between 1947 and 1950. Keyhoe contended that the Air Force was actively investigating these cases of close...
Pioneers of Science - Oliver LODGE
Pioneers of Science - Oliver LODGE
- Author: Oliver LODGE
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for Sir Oliver Lodge in the year 1887. The first part of this book is devoted to the biographies and discoveries of well known astronomers like...
Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol 1 - Edmond HALLEY
Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol 1 - Edmond HALLEY
- Author: Edmond HALLEY
- Genre: Mathematics / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics / Earth Sciences
"The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence." (from its Mission Statement). As scientists have explored the world around them, observed and tried to...
The Einstein Theory of Relativity - Hendrik A. Lorentz
The Einstein Theory of Relativity - Hendrik A. Lorentz
- Author: Hendrik A. Lorentz
- Genre: Mathematics / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
When Albert Einstein published his first paper on relativity theory, it caused a stir in the physicists' community. When more and more evidence was gathered to prove the theory correct, even laymen became interested in it. Since the theory of...
Mars and Its Canals - Percival Lowell
Mars and Its Canals - Percival Lowell
- Author: Percival Lowell
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
In the days before telescope photography, astronomers had to draw what they thought they saw through the eyepiece throughout the long dark nights. Sometimes they saw saw more than there really was to see, and a bit over 100 years ago Percival Lowell...
The Romance of Modern Mechanism - Archibald WILLIAMS
The Romance of Modern Mechanism - Archibald WILLIAMS
- Author: Archibald WILLIAMS
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
In 1910, when this book was published, the advancement of modern mechanism was still moving at a rapid pace. It must have seemed like very day, new inventions were made to make life easier. Most of these are still very much in use today, such as the...
Our Atomic World: The Story of Atomic Energy - C. Jackson Craven
Our Atomic World: The Story of Atomic Energy - C. Jackson Craven
- Author: C. Jackson Craven
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
This booklet is part of the "Understanding the Atom Series" published by the Division of Technical Information of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. From an introduction of atomic theory by the ancient Greeks through the development of the fission...
A History of Astronomy - Walter W. BRYANT
A History of Astronomy - Walter W. BRYANT
- Author: Walter W. BRYANT
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
In this book, Walter W. Bryant traces the history of astronomy through the ages. We start at the very beginning, where astronomy was an occupation of priests, move with the help of the Arabs through the middle ages to the (re-) discovery of the...
One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe - William Carpenter
One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe - William Carpenter
- Author: William Carpenter
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
A bit of pseudo-science that will baffle, confuse, and amaze! Until the Space Age, there was little every-day, self-evident proof that the earth was a globe, and plenty of people believed in a flat Earth. (Even today, some are still of this...
The Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome - Sextus Julius Frontinus
The Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome - Sextus Julius Frontinus
- Author: Sextus Julius Frontinus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / War & Military / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Frontinus' Stratagems is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, which the author comments based on his own experience as a general in Germania. Many of the stories he tells can also be found in other Roman...
On the Various Forces of Nature - Michael FARADAY
On the Various Forces of Nature - Michael FARADAY
- Author: Michael FARADAY
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
A non-mathematical survey of the fundamental forces of nature and some relationships among them. This is a series of lectures aimed at young people. He starts off with the most fundamental and familiar forces of all: Gravity and Heat. Then by a...
Faraday As A Discoverer - John Tyndall
Faraday As A Discoverer - John Tyndall
- Author: John Tyndall
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
This is the first of two related Faraday projects. It is about Faraday and deals more with biographical references to Faraday, outlining the important junctures in his life. The second, On the Various Forces of Nature, consists of lectures by...
The General Principle of Relativity: In Its Philosophical and Historical Aspect - Herbert Wildon Carr
The General Principle of Relativity: In Its Philosophical and Historical Aspect - Herbert Wildon Carr
- Author: Herbert Wildon Carr
- Genre: Modern / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
The main purpose of this book is to show the historical relations of the new principle to the old philosophical problems and to the classical theories of space and time. - Summary by Adapted from the Preface...
History of Astronomy - George Forbes
History of Astronomy - George Forbes
- Author: George Forbes
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by recognising the different points of view of the different ages, to give due credit even to the ancients. No one...
The Atom and the Ocean - E. W. Seabrook Hull
The Atom and the Ocean - E. W. Seabrook Hull
- Author: E. W. Seabrook Hull
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
This is one of the publications in the “Understanding the Atom” Series from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Topics covered include an overview of the ocean, the role of nuclear energy, research project, oceanic instruments, nuclear powered...