The Birth of a New Physics [VINTAGE 2000] [LEATHERBOUND COLLECTORS EDITION]

Cohen, I. Bernard

Verlag: Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2000

Beschreibung

As new condition full saddle brown genuine leather boards with elaborately decorated gilt front cover, spine, and rear cover decorations, gilt spine lettering, a traditional four-hubbed spine, matching moire fabric front and rear endpapers, text and illustrations printed on special acid-neutral paper, and a permanent bound-into-the-volume matching satin ribbon page marker. The pages are sewn into the binding (not glued) and the pages are gilded at all three sides of the page edges. Includes Author Dedication; Preface; A Guide to Further Reading and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, black-and-white line drawings, diagrams and graphs. "The earth circles the sun every year and rotates on its axis every twenty-four hours. The earth does not stand still. These are notions so basic to our view of life that we take them for granted. But in the seventeenth century they were revolutionary, heretical, even dangerous to the men who formed them. Culture, religion, and science had intertwined over the centuries to create a world view based on a stationary earth. Indeed, if the earth moved, would not birds be blown off the trees and would not an object thrown straight up come down far away? Then came the Renaissance and with it Copernicus, Gallileo, Kepler, Huygens, and Newton: giants who courageously remade the world into a earth which actually moves 100,000 feet a second while revolving 1,000 miles an hour around an oject 93,000,000 miles away. And yet birds perch unruffled and an apple will fall straight down. All of this we think we know. But how well do we know it? In the. [over 65 years] since its first publication, The Birth of a New Physics has become a classic in the history of science.".

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 010184

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Birth of a New Physics [VINTAGE 2000] [LEATHERBOUND COLLECTORS EDITION]
• Verlag: Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: As New
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