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Entropic Creation
Entropic Creation is the first English-language book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, from around 1860 to 1920. According to …
Controversy and Consensus: Nuclear Beta Decay 1911-1934
To all four of us, Carsten was the best possible friend and colleague. To Finn, he was a fellow student in the history of science for several years at the Niels Bohr Institute; to …
Varying Gravity
The main focus of this book is on the interconnection of two unorthodox scientific ideas, the varying-gravity hypothesis and the expanding-earth hypothesis. As such, it provides a …
Ludvig Lorenz
DANSK SALGSTEKST: Ludvig Valentin Lorenz (1829-1891) var Danmarks første teoretiske fysiker af internationalt format. I videnskabshistorien optræder han højst som en sekundær …
Quantum Generations
At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only …
Moon that Wasn't
The planet Venus is the closest neighbour to the Earth and in several respects similar to our globe. It revolves around the Sun at an average distance of 0. 72 astronomical units, …
Cosmology and Controversy
For over three millennia, most people could understand the universe only in terms of myth, religion, and philosophy. Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology transformed into a branch of …
The Making of the Chemist
Modern chemistry, so alarming, so necessary, so ubiquitous, became a mature science in nineteenth-century Europe. As it developed, often from a lowly position in medicine or in …
Weight of the Vacuum
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark …
Conceptions of Cosmos
This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific …