Letters, Pamphlets Etc., Relating to Dr. Edmond Halley (1656-1742)
Author : Eugene Fairfield McPike
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File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Eugene Fairfield McPike
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File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Edmond Halley
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Astronomy
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Union catalogs
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Author : Jason Socrates Bardi
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0786733640
Now regarded as the bane of many college students' existence, calculus was one of the most important mathematical innovations of the seventeenth century. But a dispute over its discovery sewed the seeds of discontent between two of the greatest scientific giants of all time -- Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Today Newton and Leibniz are generally considered the twin independent inventors of calculus, and they are both credited with giving mathematics its greatest push forward since the time of the Greeks. Had they known each other under different circumstances, they might have been friends. But in their own lifetimes, the joint glory of calculus was not enough for either and each declared war against the other, openly and in secret. This long and bitter dispute has been swept under the carpet by historians -- perhaps because it reveals Newton and Leibniz in their worst light -- but The Calculus Wars tells the full story in narrative form for the first time. This vibrant and gripping scientific potboiler ultimately exposes how these twin mathematical giants were brilliant, proud, at times mad and, in the end, completely human.
Author : David Alan Grier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1400849365
Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.
Author : William Younger Fletcher
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Page : 544 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Beagle Expedition
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Author : Floyd I. Brewer
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Page : 501 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Bethlehem (N.Y.)
ISBN : 9780963540201
Author : Abraham de Moivre
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 1725
Category : Annuities
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