Download or read book Scientific Method written by John Staddon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how science works, fails to work, or pretends to work, by looking at examples from such diverse fields as physics, biomedicine, psychology, and economics. Social science affects our lives every day through the predictions of experts and the rules and regulations they devise. Sciences like economics, sociology and health are subject to more ‘operating limitations’ than classical fields like physics or chemistry or biology. Yet, their methods and results must also be judged according to the same scientific standards. Every literate citizen should understand these standards and be able to tell the difference between good science and bad. Scientific Method enables readers to develop a critical, informed view of scientific practice by discussing concrete examples of how real scientists have approached the problems of their fields. It is ideal for students and professionals trying to make sense of the role of science in society, and of the meaning, value, and limitations of scientific methodology in the social sciences.
Download or read book Scientific Works written by George Knight and Sons and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tesla Collection 70 Scientific Works Lectures Essays written by Nikola Tesla and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikola Tesla's 'The Tesla Collection: 70+ Scientific Works, Lectures & Essays' is a prestigious compilation of the renowned inventor's most significant writings. Delving into various scientific fields, from electricity to physics, this collection showcases Tesla's groundbreaking ideas and research. Written in a clear and accessible style, Tesla's works provide invaluable insights into his revolutionary discoveries and inventions, making this book a cornerstone in the history of science and technology. Readers will be captivated by Tesla's visionary thinking and innovative concepts, which continue to influence modern science and engineering.Nikola Tesla, a pioneering inventor and scientist, was known for his contributions to the development of alternating current electrical systems. His curiosity and passion for experimentation led him to explore new frontiers in technology and inspire future generations of scientists. Through 'The Tesla Collection,' readers gain a deeper understanding of Tesla's genius and impact on the scientific world.I highly recommend 'The Tesla Collection' to anyone with an interest in science, technology, or history. This comprehensive compilation offers a unique insight into the mind of one of the greatest inventors of all time, making it a must-read for both scholars and enthusiasts alike.
Download or read book How it All Works written by Adam Dant and published by Ivy Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautiful and unique combination of art and science, this stunningly detailed book examines how the rules of science govern the the world around us, from the rooms in our houses to the planet, the solar system and the universe itself! The Universe is inconceivably complex. Its component parts though follow a set of unbreakable laws that have somehow been coded into their very fabric since the beginning of time. These laws play out in different ways at different scales, giving rise to the familiar phenomena of everyday life – as well as the unfamiliar abstract goings-on outside our experience and awareness. Understanding these laws may seem a daunting task, until now. How it All Works illustrates simply how the most interesting and complex named scientific laws and phenomena affect everyone’s daily lives. Using hyper-detailed scene illustrations from the incredible award-winning artist Adam Dant, we start small, with the illustrated science inside your kitchen, before expanding outwards to encompass your garden, street, city, continent, planet, solar system, galaxy and eventually the whole universe. With tiny details pulled out from visually stunning and intricate scene, learn how: Kirchhoff’s Law affects how you charge your phone, Newton’s Law of Cooling helps you make your coffee just the right temperature to drink, How the rules of antimatter are used in hospitals for medical imaging, How Cassie's law keeps ducks dry, How glaciation shapes the ladscapes around us, How thermohaline circulation dictates our weather, and How quantum tunnelling influences the nuclear fusion in our sun, and Wien’s Law determines its colour. This book will astound and inform in equal measure, with each principle drawn into the scene and explained with clarity by leading science writer Brian Clegg. With a reference section at the back as well as profiles of the key figures who have helped shape our understanding of these key principles, from Lynn Margulis and Richard Feynman to Marie Curie, Michael Faraday,Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, this beautiful and unique visual examination of the rules of science is an must-have book for anyone who wants to understand the physics, chemistry and biology of the world around us!
Download or read book Comte Early Political Writings written by Auguste Comte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides translations of Auguste Comte's early writings, with scholarly apparatus placing Comte in his historical context.
Download or read book Science in Action written by Bruno Latour and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From weaker to stronger rhetoric : literature - Laboratories - From weak points to strongholds : machines - Insiders out - From short to longer networks : tribunals of reason - Centres of calculation.
Download or read book The Classics of Science written by Derek Gjertsen and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nikola Tesla Ultimate Collection 70 Scientific Works Lectures Essays written by Nikola Tesla and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikola Tesla's 'Nikola Tesla - Ultimate Collection: 70+ Scientific Works, Lectures & Essays' is a comprehensive collection of the groundbreaking works of the pioneering inventor and electrical engineer. This anthology showcases Tesla's innovative ideas, scientific discoveries, and philosophical reflections in a wide range of fields including electricity, magnetism, and wireless communication. Written in a clear and accessible style, Tesla's works provide valuable insights into the scientific advancements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His visionary concepts continue to inspire and influence modern technology and engineering. Nikola Tesla, known for his eccentric personality and unmatched genius, was a key figure in the development of electricity and wireless communication. His relentless pursuit of innovation led to numerous patents and inventions that revolutionized the modern world. This collection serves as a testament to Tesla's brilliance and legacy as a pioneering scientist. For readers interested in the history of science, technological innovation, and the life of a remarkable inventor, 'Nikola Tesla - Ultimate Collection' is a must-read. This anthology offers a unique opportunity to delve into the scientific mind of Tesla and explore his revolutionary ideas that continue to shape our world today.
Download or read book The Sociology of Scientific Work written by Dominique Vinck and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This work is a magisterial introduction to the sociology of science. With science being imbricated in the very tissue of our political lives – with climate change, energy policy, biodiversity conservation and so forth – it is increasingly important that the rich lessons of the field of science studies be brought to a wider readership. This book achieves that goal with great style: it is both highly accessible and rigorously researched.' – Geoffrey C. Bowker, Santa Clara University, US More than ever before, science and technology play a significant role in modern society as evidenced by the development of nanotechnologies and the controversies surrounding GMOs and climate change. This book comprehensively explores the flourishing field of science and technology studies and examines its creation, development and interaction with contemporary society. Dominique Vinck examines the various relationships between science and society including the emergence of sciences, the dynamics of innovation and technical democracy. He also investigates the principal social mechanisms of science and technology such as institutions, organizations, exchanges between researchers and the construction of scientific knowledge, expertise and innovation. The book provides a thorough overview of the field and reviews the major theoretical and methodological approaches as well as the current state of research on a range of topics. This original book will strongly appeal to students and researchers in the social sciences including economics, the management of innovation, political science and the sociology of science. All those interested in the debate on the role of science and technology in society will also find this book to be of great interest.
Download or read book Tesla Premium Edition 70 Scientific Works Lectures Essays written by Nikola Tesla and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited Nikola Tesla collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices: Content My Inventions – Autobiography of Nikola Tesla Lectures: A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena On Electricity My Submarine Destroyer High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-Therapeutic and Other Purposes Scientific Articles: Swinburne's "Hedgehog" Transformer Phenomena of Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency Alternate Current Electrostatic Induction Apparatus An Electrolytic Clock Electric Discharge in Vacuum Tubes Notes on a Unipolar Dynamo The "Drehstrom" Patent The Ewing High-Frequency Alternator and Parson's Steam Engine On the Dissipation of the Electrical Energy of the Hertz Resonator The Physiological and Other Effects of High Frequency Currents Nikola Tesla - About His Experiments in Electrical Healing The Age of Electricity The Problem of Increasing Human Energy Talking with Planets Can Bridge the Gap to Mars Little Aeroplane Progress How to Signal to Mars The Transmission of Electric Energy Without Wires The Wonder World to Be Created by Electricity Nikola Tesla Sees a Wireless Vision Correction by Mr. Tesla The True Wireless On Reflected Roentgen Rays On Roentgen Radiations Roentgen Ray Investigations Tuned Lightning Tesla's Wireless Torpedo Tesla's Tidal Wave to Make War Impossible Possibilities of Wireless My Apparatus, Says Tesla Mr. Tesla's Vision Wonders of the Future Electric Drive for Battle Ships A Lighting Machine on Novel Principles Electrical Oscillators... Letters to Magazine Editors The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla by T. C. Martin
Download or read book How Nature Works written by Per Bak and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-organized criticality, the spontaneous development of systems to a critical state, is the first general theory of complex systems with a firm mathematical basis. This theory describes how many seemingly desperate aspects of the world, from stock market crashes to mass extinctions, avalanches to solar flares, all share a set of simple, easily described properties. "...a'must read'...Bak writes with such ease and lucidity, and his ideas are so intriguing...essential reading for those interested in complex systems...it will reward a sufficiently skeptical reader." -NATURE "...presents the theory (self-organized criticality) in a form easily absorbed by the non-mathematically inclined reader." -BOSTON BOOK REVIEW "I picture Bak as a kind of scientific musketeer; flamboyant, touchy, full of swagger and ready to join every fray... His book is written with panache. The style is brisk, the content stimulating. I recommend it as a bracing experience." -NEW SCIENTIST
Download or read book The Knowledge Machine How Irrationality Created Modern Science written by Michael Strevens and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise.” —Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex A paradigm-shifting work, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. • Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics—for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe? In a groundbreaking work that blends science, philosophy, and history, leading philosopher of science Michael Strevens answers these challenging questions, showing how science came about only once thinkers stumbled upon the astonishing idea that scientific breakthroughs could be accomplished by breaking the rules of logical argument. Like such classic works as Karl Popper’s The Logic of Scientific Discovery and Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine grapples with the meaning and origins of science, using a plethora of vivid historical examples to demonstrate that scientists willfully ignore religion, theoretical beauty, and even philosophy to embrace a constricted code of argument whose very narrowness channels unprecedented energy into empirical observation and experimentation. Strevens calls this scientific code the iron rule of explanation, and reveals the way in which the rule, precisely because it is unreasonably close-minded, overcomes individual prejudices to lead humanity inexorably toward the secrets of nature. “With a mixture of philosophical and historical argument, and written in an engrossing style” (Alan Ryan), The Knowledge Machine provides captivating portraits of some of the greatest luminaries in science’s history, including Isaac Newton, the chief architect of modern science and its foundational theories of motion and gravitation; William Whewell, perhaps the greatest philosopher-scientist of the early nineteenth century; and Murray Gell-Mann, discoverer of the quark. Today, Strevens argues, in the face of threats from a changing climate and global pandemics, the idiosyncratic but highly effective scientific knowledge machine must be protected from politicians, commercial interests, and even scientists themselves who seek to open it up, to make it less narrow and more rational—and thus to undermine its devotedly empirical search for truth. Rich with illuminating and often delightfully quirky illustrations, The Knowledge Machine, written in a winningly accessible style that belies the import of its revisionist and groundbreaking concepts, radically reframes much of what we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world.
Download or read book Goethe s scientific Works Translated written by Rudolf Steiner and published by David De Angelis. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years 1884-1897 Rudolf Steiner edited Goethe's scientific writings for the series "German National Literature" of the publisher Kürschner. In Goethe's works, each individual experience is not an end in itself, but serves to substantiate a single, great idea: the unceasing harmonious becoming of the universe, revealed in this volume. "The dominant influence in Steiner's life was that of Goethe. In 1833 he was invited to edit Goethe's scientific writings for the planned canonical edition, and his first publications, dating from 1866, are on Goethe. In 1890 he left Vienna and for six years went to work at the Goethe Archives in Weimar, strong not only in an orthodox culture that the following year would earn him a degree in philosophy at Rostock, but also in a very large body of general knowledge about all known disciplines." James Webb
Download or read book On the Organization of Scientific Work of the General Government written by John Wesley Powell and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific Work and Creativity written by Citizen Scientists League and published by Reginald Smith. This book was released on 2012 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the great discoverers of science really work? Biographers, psychologists, and philosophers have written much on the phenomenon of scientific creativity. This collection of essays takes you into the minds of some of the world's greatest scientists. You can read in their own words how they worked, thought, and discovered crucial insights. Hermann von Helmholtz, Hideki Yukawa, Ernst Mach, J.B.S. Haldane, Steven Weinberg, Peter Doherty, C.V. Raman, Sylvester James Gates, and many more deliver witty, irreverent, thoughtful, and profound advice to scientists of all kinds and abilities. Whether you are a science hobbyist, an undergraduate doing your first lab work, a postdoc, or a seasoned professional, these essays will help point you in the direction of insight and discovery.
Download or read book Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work written by Charles Taillie and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Trieste, Italy, July 10-August 1, 1980
Download or read book Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
