Archimedes to Hawking : laws of science and the great minds behind them
Pickover, Clifford A.2008
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Explores the eponymous physical laws - from Archimedes Law of Buoyancy and Keplers Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle and Hubbles Law of Cosmic Expansion - whose ramifications have profoundly altered our everyday lives
Main title:
Archimedes to Hawking : laws of science and the great minds behind them / by Clifford A. Pickover
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Imprint:
New York Oxford University Press 2008
Collation:
514 p. illustrations
Contents:
Introduction and Backdrop: The Laws of Nature - The Lawgivers - Is It Fair to Name a Law after a Person? -
ISBN:
9780195336115 (hbk 0195336119 hbk)
Dewey class:
500.2 ARC
Local class:
500.2
Language:
English
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BRN:
46368
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