The Silver Magnet
Author : Grant Shepherd
Publisher : Acls History E-Book Project
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781597405843
Author : Grant Shepherd
Publisher : Acls History E-Book Project
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781597405843
Author : William Gilbert
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486163016
From the first great experimental scientist: the classic text, first published in Latin in 1600. Summarizes then-current knowledge of magnetism and electricity, offering insights into the origins of modern science.
Author : Grant Shepherd
Publisher : ACLS History E-Book Project
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Alanna Mitchell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1101985186
The mystery of Earth's invisible, life-supporting power Alanna Mitchell's globe-trotting history of the science of electromagnetism and the Earth's magnetic field--right up to the latest indications that the North and South Poles may soon reverse, with apocalyptic results--will soon change the way you think about our planet. Award-winning journalist Alanna Mitchell's science storytelling introduce intriguing characters--from the thirteenth-century French investigations into magnetism and the Victorian-era discover that electricity and magnetism emerge from the same fundamental force to the latest research. No one has ever told so eloquently how the Earth itself came to be seen as a magnet, spinning in space with two poles, and that those poles have dramatically reversed many time, often coinciding with mass extinctions. The most recent reversal was 780,000 years ago. Mitchell explores indications that the Earth's magnetic force field is decaying faster than previously thought. When the poles switch, a process that takes many years, the Earth is unprotected from solar radiation storms that would, among other disturbances, wipe out much and possible all of our electromagnetic technology. Navigation for all kinds of animals is disrupted without a stable, magnetic North Pole. But can you imagine no satellites, no Internet, no smartphones--maybe no power grids at all? Alanna Mitchell offers a beautifully crafted narrative history of surprising ideas and science, illuminating invisible parts of our own planet that are constantly changing around us.
Author : William Gilbert
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1326494465
This 'On The Magnet' is a new improved English translation of the widely censored or banned Latin 1600 'De Magnete' by William Gilbert which was the first real science book to be published. This version is rather easier to read than its two earlier translations, and significantly helps to clarify Gilbert's 'attraction' physics which Newton put as one of two basic valid mathematized physics options and which he is believed to have privately favoured. It is basically a novel signal-response or remote-control physics that may still have real relevance today.
Author : William Gilbert
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Blood
ISBN :
Author : Jude Stewart
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0143135996
An extraordinary, strange, and startlingly beautiful exploration of smell, the least understood of our five senses The nose on your face is the Buckingham Palace Guard of your body, the maitre d' of all taste, as well as the seducer of your imagination, and memory—and Jude Stewart has charmed them all into a wicked, poetic and illuminating tour of their mysterious domains. —Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs Overlapping with taste yet larger in scope, smell is the sense that comes closest to pure perception. Smell can collapse space and time, unlocking memories and transporting us to worlds both new and familiar. Yet as clearly as each of us can recognize different smells--the bright tang of citrus, freshly sharpened pencils, parched earth after rain--few of us understand how and why we smell. In Revelations in Air, Jude Stewart takes us on a fascinating journey into the weird and wonderful world of smell. Beginning with lessons on the incredible biology and history of how our noses work, Stewart teaches us how to use our noses like experts. Once we're properly equipped and ready to sniff, Stewart explores a range of smells—from lavender, cut grass and hot chocolate to cannabis and old books—using smell as a lens into art, history, science, and more. With an engaging colorful design and exercises for readers to refine their own skills, Revelations in Air goes beyond science or history or chemistry--it's a doorway into the surprising, pleasurable, and unfamiliar landscape of smell.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Electrical engineering
ISBN :
Author : Carl Lumholtz
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
The two classic historical texts on the Copper Canyon and the Tarahumara Indians.
Author : Vincent Wilmot
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1329398254
The first book is basically the New-Science-Theory.com site as on 1 January 2018, for changes since then visit the website with its Sitemap noting updates. It is especially good for those interested in physics theory, concentrating chiefly on the four great physicists William Gilbert, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein - and also having fine sections on Galileo, Kepler, History of Science, Gravity, Light, String Theory, Standard Model Physics, Probability Science, Philosophy of Science and General Image Theory Science. The second book is a new improved English translation of William Gilbert's banned Latin 1600 'De Magnete' or 'On The Magnet'. This is rather easier to read than its two earlier translations, and significantly helps to clarify Gilbert's 'attraction' physics which Newton put as one of the two mathematized physics options and which he is believed to have privately favoured. It is basically a novel signal-response or remote-control physics that may still have relevance.