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1 online resource (ix, 514 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction and backdrop -- The laws of nature -- The lawgivers -- Is it fair to name a law after a person? -- Theories and laws -- Do we discover or invent laws? -- Simple mathematics and reality -- What is reality really? -- Book organization and purpose -- Distribution of law discovers through time -- Where the lawgivers lived -- When will the last law be discovered? -- 250 B.C.-1700 A.D. -- Archimedes' principle of buoyancy, c. 250 B.C. -- Kepler's laws of planetary motion, 1609 and 1618 -- Snell's law of refraction, 1621 -- Hooke's law of elasticity, 1660 -- Boyle's gas law, 1662 -- Newton's laws of motion, gravitation, and cooling, 1687 and 1701 -- 1700-1800 -- Bernoulli's law of fluid dynamics, 1738 -- Lambert's law of emission, 1760 -- Bode's law of planetary distances, 1766 -- Coulomb's law of electrostatics, 1785 -- Charles's gas law, 1787 -- 1800-1900 -- Dalton's law of partial pressures, 1801 -- Henry's gas law, 1802 -- Gay-Lussac's law of combining gas volumes, 1808 -- Avogadro's gas law, 1811 -- Brewster's law of light polarization, 1815 -- The Dulong-Petit law of specific heats, 1819 -- The Biot-Savart law of magnetic force, 1820 -- Fourier's law of heat conduction, 1822 -- Ampère's circuital law of electromagnetism, 1825 -- Ohm's law of electricity, 1827 -- Graham's law of effusion, 1829 -- Faraday's laws of induction and electrolysis, 1831 and 1833 -- Gauss's laws of electricity and magnetism, 1835 -- Poiseuille's law of fluid flow, 1840 -- Joule's law of electric heating, 1840 |
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Kirchhoff's electrical circuit and thermal radiation laws, 1845 and 1859 -- Clausius's law of thermodynamics, 1850 -- Stoke's law of viscosity, 1851 -- Beer's law of absorption, 1852 -- The Wiedemann-Franz law of conductivity, 1853 -- Fick's laws of diffusion, 1855 -- Buys-Ballot's wind and pressure law, 1857 -- Eötvös's law of capillarity, 1866 -- Kohlrausch's laws of conductivity, 1874 and 1875 -- Curie's magnetism law and the Curie-Weiss law, 1895, generalized in 1907 -- 1900 and beyond -- Planck's law of radiation, 1900 -- Bragg's law of crystal diffraction, 1913 -- Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, 1927 -- Hubble's law of cosmic expansion, 1929 -- The great contenders which says farewell to the laws and lawgivers by cataloging a far-ranging second set of eponymous laws, 1600-1700, 1700-1800, 1800-1900,1900 and beyond -- Final comments on the beauty of mathematics in science -- The beauty of mathematics -- Great equations of science -- Listmania and human achievement -- "The greatest equations ever" -- Nicaragua postage stamp list -- Physics and religion |
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Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion--whose ramifications have profoundly altered our everyday lives and our understanding of the universe. Throughout this fascinating book, Clifford Pickover invites us to share in the amazing adventures of brilliant, quirky, and passionate people after whom these laws are named. These lawgivers turn out to be a fascinating, diverse, and |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-503) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Physical laws -- History
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Science -- Methodology -- History
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Science -- Philosophy -- History
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Scientists -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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Physical laws
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Science -- Methodology
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Science -- Philosophy
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Scientists
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Naturwissenschaften
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Gesetz Physik
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Naturgesetz -- Geschichte.
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Physiker -- Geschichte.
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199714520 |
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0199714525 |
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9781435642133 |
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1435642139 |
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1281342300 |
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9781281342300 |
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9786611342302 |
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6611342303 |
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9780199792689 |
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0199792682 |
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