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Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them

by Clifford Pickover

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Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion--whose ramifications have profoundly altered our everyday lives and our understanding of the universe. Throughout this fascinating book, Clifford Pickover invites us to share in the amazing adventures of brilliant, quirky, and passionate people after whom these laws are named. These lawgivers turn out to be a fascinating, diverse, and… (more)
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A 500-page collection of eponymous laws of physical science (Hooke's Law, Ohm's Law, etc), many emanating from 1800s Europe. That the prolific Pickover is probably incapable of writing a non-idiosyncratic book is evidenced as early as p 8 when he says, "Many of the laws in this book that excite me the most deal with electrical discoveries of highly religious people." Huh? A subset of the innumerable exogenous quotations he includes drip with theology, and this is really quite annoying.
1 vote fpagan | Nov 21, 2009 |
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Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion--whose ramifications have profoundly altered our everyday lives and our understanding of the universe. Throughout this fascinating book, Clifford Pickover invites us to share in the amazing adventures of brilliant, quirky, and passionate people after whom these laws are named. These lawgivers turn out to be a fascinating, diverse, and

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