Download or read book Miscellaneous Works of the Late Thomas Young written by Thomas Young and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miscellaneous Works of the Late Thomas Young Scientific memoirs written by Thomas Young and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miscellaneous Works of the Late Thomas Young M D F R S c an One of the Eight Foreign Associates of the National Institutes of France Edited by George Peacock written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miscellaneous Works of the Late Thomas Young Hieroglyphical essays and correspondence written by Thomas Young and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writing of the Gods written by Edward Dolnick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fast-paced and “engrossing account” (The New York Times Book Review) of “one of the greatest breakthroughs in archaeological history” (The Christian Science Monitor): two rival geniuses in a race to decode the writing on one of the world’s most famous documents—the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British museum every year, and yet most people don’t really know what it is. Discovered in a pile of rubble in 1799, this slab of stone proved to be the key to unlocking a lost language that baffled scholars for centuries. Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages—in Greek using Greek letters, and in Egyptian using picture-writing called hieroglyphs. Until its discovery, no one in the world knew how to read the hieroglyphs that covered every temple and text and statue in Egypt. Dominating the world for thirty centuries, ancient Egypt was the mightiest empire the world had ever known, yet everything about it—the pyramids, mummies, the Sphinx—was shrouded in mystery. Whoever was able to decipher the Rosetta Stone would solve that mystery and fling open a door that had been locked for two thousand years. Two brilliant rivals set out to win that prize. One was English, the other French, at a time when England and France were enemies and the world’s two great superpowers. Written “like a thriller” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), The Writing of the Gods chronicles this high-stakes intellectual race in which the winner would win glory for both himself and his nation. A riveting portrait of empires both ancient and modern, this is an unparalleled look at the culture and history of ancient Egypt, “and also a lesson…in what the human mind does when faced with a puzzle” (The New Yorker).
Download or read book Cohesion written by J. S. Rowlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does matter stick together? Why do gases condense to liquids, and liquids to solids? This book provides a detailed historical account of how some of the leading scientists of the past three centuries have tried to answer these questions.
Download or read book Thomas Young s Life and Works Life of Thomas Young written by Thomas Young and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy and Empire written by Crosbie Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-26 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of 19th-century Britain, delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it.
Download or read book Seeking Nature s Logic written by David B. Wilson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to the modern revolution in physics. Examines how the history of science has been influenced by John Robison and other notable intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book A History of the Cultural Travels of Energy written by Peter Hjertholm and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a cultural history of the travels of energy in the English language, from its origins in Aristotle’s ontology, where it referred to the activity-of-being, through its English usage as a way to speak about the inherent nature of things, to its adoption as a name for the mechanics of motion (capacity for work). A distinguished literature deals with energy as matter of science history. But this literature fails to adequately answer a historical question about the rise of the science of energy: How did the commonplace word ‘energy’ end up becoming a concept in science? This account differs in important ways from the history of the word in the Oxford English Dictionary. Discovering the origins and early travels of energy is essential for understanding how the word was borrowed into physics, and therefore a cultural history of energy is a necessary companion to the science history of the term. It is important that modern scholars in a variety of fields be aware that energy did not always have a scientific content. The absence of that awareness can lead to, have led to, anachronistic interpretations of energy in historical sources from before the 1860s. A History of the Cultural Travels of Energy will be useful for those interested in the history of science and technology, cultural history, and linguistics.
Download or read book Instruments and the Imagination written by Thomas L. Hankins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixtures), Aeolian harps (a form of wind chime), and other instruments of "natural magic" designed to produce wondrous effects. By looking at these and the first recording instruments, the stereoscope, and speaking machines, the authors show that "scientific instruments" first made their appearance as devices used to evoke wonder in the beholder, as in works of magic and the theater. The authors also demonstrate that these instruments, even though they were often "tricks," were seen by their inventors as more than trickery. In the view of Athanasius Kircher, for instance, the sunflower clock was not merely a hoax, but an effort to demonstrate, however fraudulently, his truly held belief that the ability of a flower to follow the sun was due to the same cosmic magnetic influence as that which moved the planets and caused the rotation of the earth. The marvels revealed in this work raise and answer questions about the connections between natural science and natural magic, the meaning of demonstration, the role of language and the senses in science, and the connections among art, music, literature, and natural science. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Thomas Young s Life and Works written by Thomas Young and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2003 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Young's Life and Works illustrates the greatest scientific achievements of Thomas Young (1773-1829). Chiefly remembered for his work on physiological optics, Young initiated important paths of investigation which other scientists were later able to take up and complete. Originally published separately, but intended as companion works, the one-volume Life of Thomas Young, edited by George Peacock, and the three-volume Miscellaneous Works of the Late Thomas Young, edited by George Peacock and John Leitch, complete this collection of all of Young's major works. Volume 1 of this four-volume collection is the standard Life of Thomas Young originally published in 1855 and edited by the Young scholar, Peacock. The work features rare manuscripts, including the now lost Young journal; it is not only the definitive source on Young's life, but also a valuable historical resource on the development and context of Young's scientific breakthroughs. Miscellaneous Works of the Late Thomas Young collects Young's contributions to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, including his famous Bakerian Lectures and key articles prepared for the Supplement of the Encyclopædia Britannica. The collection also features Young's book reviews from the Quarterly Review, such as a review of Laplace's Memoir"Sur la Loi de la Réfraction extraordinaire dans les Cristaux diaphanes" and Humphry Davy's Elements of Chemical Philosophy. Volume two contains Young's innovative essays on optics and correspondence between Young and influential scientists of the time, including the great British physicist David Brewster. Volumes three and four contain informative biographies (with extensive bibliographies) of the great scientists of the eighteenth century, including the natural philosopher John Robison, the great mathematician and astronomer Joseph Lagrange, and the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne. The collection concludes with essays which vividly illustrate Young's pioneering work on deciphering the Rosetta Stone, including his correspondence with his great rival Champollion. The Thoemmes reprint of these two key works is an indispensable resource for historians of science and an excellent companion to Thomas Young's Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (also printed by Thoemmes Press, January 2002).
Download or read book Light and Video Microscopy written by Randy O. Wayne and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light and Video Microscopy, Third Edition provides a step-by-step journey through philosophy, psychology and the geometrical and physical optics involved in interpreting images formed by light microscopes. The book addresses the intricacies necessary to set up light microscopes that allow one to visualize transparent specimens and, in the process, quantitatively determine various physico-chemical properties of specimens. This updated edition includes the most recent developments in microscopy, ensuring that it continues to be the most comprehensive, easy-to-use, and informative guide on light microscopy. With its presentation of geometrical optics, it assists the reader in understanding image formation and light movement within the microscope. - Provides a fully-revised, updated resource on three-dimensional (3D) structures - Contains a new appendices on Diffraction Theory and Advanced Image Processing - Provides practical applications, lab exercises and case studies on the mathematics, physics and biology used in microscopy - Discusses bright field, dark field, phase-contrast, fluorescence, interference, differential interference and modulation contrast microscopes, oblique illumination and photomicrography
Download or read book Queen Caroline and Sir William Gell written by Jason Thompson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between Queen Caroline, one of the most enigmatic characters in Regency England, and Sir William Gell, the leading classical scholar of his day. Despised and rejected by her husband, Caroline created a sphere and court of her own through patronage of scholarship. The primary beneficiary was Gell, a pioneering scholar of the classical world who opened new dimensions in the study of ancient Troy, mainland Greece, and Ithaca. Despite his achievements, Gell had scarce financial resources. Support from Caroline enabled him to establish himself in Italy and conduct his seminal work about ancient Rome and, especially, Pompeii, until her sensational trial before the House of Lords and premature death. Concluding with the first scholarly transcription of the extraordinary series of letters that Caroline wrote to Gell, this volume illuminates how Caroline sought power through patronage, and how Gell shaped classical scholarship in nineteenth-century Britain.
Download or read book Mystery Of Time The Asymmetry Of Time And Irreversibility In The Natural Processes written by Alexander Leonidovich Kuzemsky and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the study of the temporal behavior of complex many-particle systems. The phenomenon of time and its role in the temporal evolution of complex systems is a remaining mystery. The book presents the necessity of the interdisciplinary point of view regarding on the phenomenon of time.The aim of the present study is to summarize and formulate in a concise but clear form the trends and approaches to the concept of time from a broad interdisciplinary perspective exposing tersely the complementary approaches and theories of time in the context of thermodynamics, statistical physics, cosmology, theory of information, biology and biophysics, including the problem of time and aging. Various approaches to the problem show that time is an extraordinarily interdisciplinary and multifaceted underlying notion which plays an extremely important role in various natural complex processes.
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Download or read book Sir Gardner Wilkinson and His Circle written by Jason Thompson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Following in the footsteps of Napoleon's army, Europeans invaded Egypt in the early nineteenth century to gaze in wonder at the massive, inscrutable remains of its ancient civilizations. One of these travelers was a twenty-four-year-old Englishman, John Gardner Wilkinson. His copious observations of ancient and modern Egyptian places, artifacts, and lifeways, recorded in such widely read publications as Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians and Handbook for Travellers in Egypt, made him the leading early Victorian authority on ancient Egypt and paved the way for the scientific study of Egyptology." "In this first full-scale biography of Wilkinson (1797-1875), Jason Thompson skillfully portrays both the man and his era. He follows Wilkinson during his initial sojourn in Egypt (1821-1833) as Wilkinson immersed himself in a contemporary Egyptian lifestyle and in study of its ancient past. He shows Wilkinson in his circle of friends - among them Edward William Lane, Robert Hay and Frederick Catherwood. And he traces how Wilkinson continued to use his Egyptian material in the decades following his return to England." "With the rise of professional Egyptology in the middle and later nineteenth century, Sir Gardner Wilkinson came to be viewed as an amateur and his popularity diminished. Drawing upon recently opened sources, Thompson returns Wilkinson to his rightful place within centuries of Egyptian scholarship and assesses both the vision and the limitations of his work. The result is a compelling portrait of a Victorian "gentleman-scholar" and his cultural milieu."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
