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Quirky sides of scientists

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E-1954

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Quirky sides of scientists

[Book]

:true tales of ingenuity and error from physics and astronomy

/ David R. Topper

New York

: Springer,

, 2007.

xiii, 210 p. , ill , 25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tenacity and stubbornness: Einstein on theory and experiment -- Convergence or coincidence: ancient measurements of the sun and moon, how far? -- The rationality of simplicity: Copernicus on planetary motion -- A silence of scientists: Venus's brightness, Earth's precession, and the nebula in Orion -- Progress through error: stars and quasars, how big, how far? -- The data fit the model but the model is wrong: Kepler and the structure of the cosmos -- Art illustrates science: Galileo, a blemished moon, and a parabola of blood -- Ensnared in circles: Galileo and the law of projectile motion -- Aesthetics and holism: Newton on light, color, and music -- Missing one's own discovery: Newton and the first idea of an artificial satellite -- A change of mind: Newton and the comet(s?) of 1680 and 1681 -- A well-nigh discovery: Einstein and the expanding universe.

Errors, Scientific

Physics, Research, History

Astronomy, Research, History

Topper, David.

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