From SU(3) to Gravity: Festschrift in Honor of Yuval Ne'eman (3 to Gravity : Papers in Honor of Yuval Ne'eman)

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This collection of specially written essays and articles celebrates the sixtieth birthday of Professor Yuval Ne’eman. Professor Ne’eman has been active at the forefront of many areas of modern physics; this book pays tribute to him by reporting and reflecting on the recent developments in these areas. The contributions have been grouped under five main headings: Groups and Gauges; Particles; Science Policy; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Gravity and Supergravity. Within each group are accounts of new work, developments and extensions of established approaches and discussions of current problems and future prospects. The resulting book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in cosmology and astrophysics, particle theory and relativity, and to all who wish to keep up to date with the interactions and interrelations between these subject areas.

A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy (Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) 3 volume set

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The Theory of The Heavens

A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy (Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) 3 volume set
O. Neugebauer
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ASIN: 354006995X

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From the reviews: "This monumental work will henceforth be the standard interpretation of ancient mathematical astronomy. It is easy to point out its many virtues: comprehensiveness and common sense are two of the most important. Neugebauer has studied profoundly every relevant text in Akkadian, Egyptian, Greek, and Latin, no matter how fragmentary; [...] With the combination of mathematical rigor and a sober sense of the true nature of the evidence, he has penetrated the astronomical and the historical significance of his material. [...] His work has been and will remain the most admired model for those working with mathematical and astronomical texts. D. Pingree in Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1977 "... a work that is a landmark, not only for the history of science, but for the history of scholarship. HAMA [History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy] places the history of ancient Astronomy on a entirely new foundation. We shall not soon see its equal. N.M. Swerdlow in Historia Mathematica, 1979

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The Theory of The Heavens.......2005-10-23

This three volume set is precious to me. Each time I dip into these books, I find new treasures. Since Galileo, astronomy has become an observational science, but, as Neugebauer observes: "Ancient Astronomy was overwhelmingly mathematical astronomy." He shows us how the ancients took the few and uncertain observations they had and worked out such things as the relative longitudes of Carthage and Arbela, the secne of Alexander's great victory over Darius III in 331 BC, (Ptolemy's work), the distance to the Moon (Hipparchus' work), and the length of the year.

If you want to know what the ancients knew, and how they knew it, this is the place to look. Specialists will plow through these books. Those of us with an interest in ancient science will find browsing these volumes rewarding. And, if you get hooked, there are copies on Amazon.

Galileo for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 25 Activities (For Kids series)

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Most of the activities in this book on Galileo are really scientific experiments

Galileo for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 25 Activities (For Kids series)
Richard Panchyk
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ASIN: 1556525664

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Galileo, one of history's best-known scientists, is introduced in this illuminating activity book. Children will learn how Galileo's revolutionary discoveries and sometimes controversial theories changed his world and laid the groundwork for modern astronomy and physics. This book will inspire kids to be stargazers and future astronauts or scientists as they discover Galileo's life and work. Activities allow children to try some of his theories on their own, with experiments that include playing with gravity and motion, making a pendulum, observing the moon, and painting with light and shadow. Along with the scientific aspects of Galileo's life, his passion for music and art are discussed and exemplified by period engravings, maps, and prints. A time line, glossary, and listings of major science museums, planetariums, and web sites for further exploration complement this activity book.

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Most of the activities in this book on Galileo are really scientific experiments.......2006-03-03

The only real complaint about "Galileo for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 25 Activities," is that I doubt there is a teacher in the country who would spend long enough on the famous scientist to do all of these activities. If they got to double figures that would be pretty impressive, but also somewhat doubtful. However, there are certainly some choice activities in this book by Richard Panchyk (Buzz Aldrin does the foreword) that will not only get young students interested in the life of Galileo but also fan their interest in the sciences.

This book makes it clear that while he is best known as an astronomer, Galileo was a genius who enjoyed science, mathematics, music, and art, and someone who sough the truth and believed there was no substitute for observation and experimentation. Despite being forced by the Church to recant his discovery that the sun was the center of the universe, Panchyk makes it clear that Galileo believed both science and religion help us to know ourselves. After a Timeline that begins with a new star being observed by the Chinese in 1054 to Galileo being reburied with proper honors in 1737, and a map of Italy, this book turns to Science and Astronomy Before Galileo, to set up how important he was in changing things. Astronomers including Peter Apian, Nicolaus Copernicus and Tycho Brahe are covered, as well as the Comet of 1577. The activities here include making initial lunar observations and how to use raw data, so you can see there is an initial focus on scientific metrology.

The second chapter details the Beginnings of Galileo's life, where you not only get to cook a renaissance meal (meatballs and pea soup), but also get to make a pendulum and pulsilogia. In chapter 3, Position at Pisa, Galileo began his career as a scientist. There are also sidebars on Dante, Johannes Kepler, and the Medicis so the religious, scientific and political contexts of the time are covered as well. Activities include not only the famous gravity experiment, put also the properties of the ellipse and the second part of lunar observation. The Telescope is the focus of the next chapter, which includes an aperture experiment and the floating needle experiment.

The Storm Builds is the subject of chapter five, signifying the coming collision between Galileo's science and the religion of the day. Here the activities are the perception of illumination and the mathematical problem represented by the roll of the dice (plus making a care package for Galileo because of the plague). Chapter six covers The Two Systems, with experiments on relative motion and projective motion. However, most of these chapters tell the story of what happened when Galileo was called before the Inquisition. Galileo's Last Days are covered in the last chapter, along with experiments on accelerated motion and charting the cycloid curve. The look at the life and times of Galileo is pretty strong to begin with, so when you add the activities and see that the vast majority of them are practical scientific experiments, then you have to be even more impressed. In fact, I could be wrong: I can now see a teacher breaking up the class into lots of groups and having them do different activities and sharing the results with their classmates, so getting to double figures could be pretty easy (although making meatballs can be seen as being practical too, since kids have to eat).

Throughout the book there are illustrations of the people, places and things in Galileo's life, many of which are contemporary to his time. The back of the book includes several pages of Resources. There are lists of the Popes and Grand Dukes of Tuscany during Galileo's time, a Glossary of Key Terms from "abjuration" to "volume," Key People from Peter and Philip Apian to Vincenzo Viviani, and Key Places from Arcetri to Venice. A list of Galileo's key writings is provided, along with some web sites specific to his life and works, and there is also a list of Planetariums an Astronomy/Space Museums to be found in fourteen states and the District of Columbia. If you are not tired you can also check out the Selected Bibliography before we finally get to the Index.

The final thing that needs to be said is that this is but one volume in the For Kids series. There are over a dozen volumes that I know about for sure. The one's under "A" consist of "Africa for Kids," "American Folk Art for Kids," "The American Revolution for Kids," and "Archaeology for Kids." Those four titles along should give you a good idea of the scope of the series. So teachers might only use a couple of activities from this book, but they can do the same for units on Leonardo da Vinci, Lewis and Clark, the Civil Rights Movement, and know that Chicago Review Press will be adding volumes to this wonderful series for some time to come.

Toys in Space: Exploring Science with the Astronauts

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Toys in Space: Exploring Science with the Astronauts
Carolyn Sumners
Manufacturer: Learning Triangle Press
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The adventure continues...New Shuttle Mission...New Toys ... New Activities ... Toys in Space covers 3 Shuttle missions, 11 astronauts, and 40 toys, with more than 300 activity sheets, 120 science experiments, and 15 toy flipbooksNall tested on Earth and in space. Patterns are included for making 20 different toys, including two realistic shuttle models. Toys in Space is toy-specific (between 5 and 10 activities are designed for each toy)...hands-on and focused on process skills...grade-level appropriate (targeted for grades 4 through 8, but it can be adapted for younger or older students)...career-connected (students become technicians, engineers, scientists, mission controllers, and astronauts in the activity-packed units)...content-based and related to your classroom curriculum...and inexpensive to use.

Atoms, Stars and Minds: Synthesizing an Elementary Particle That Comprehends Itself (The Copernican Series ; Vol 3)

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Atoms, Stars and Minds: Synthesizing an Elementary Particle That Comprehends Itself (The Copernican Series ; Vol 3)
Peter K. Bros
Manufacturer: Financial Book Partners
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Not easy to understand, but worth the effort.......2005-04-19

It's interesting that Bros has inspired such vehement reactions in the reviewers below but that should tell you he's on to something.

Bros is a difficult read. He is clearly not a great writer and does not always do a good job explaining his ideas. But I agree that once you sift through his prose you will find that he does an excellent job of tearing apart the underpinnings of modern physics. If you think that modern physics is the pinnacle of human thought you will not enjoy this book and probably will not understand it either.

As for the reviewer below who concludes that "logic does not apply" to physics, that is technically true, but logic does indeed apply to the manner in which we use our intellects to arrive at those "laws". Bros argues, successfully I believe, that the thought processes scientists have used to arrive at the modern "laws" of physics are not completely logical. And therefore the "laws" of physics are not "laws" and need to be reevaluated in the light of logical thought.

I think it's clear that Bros will be ignored now but 50-100 years from now he will recognized as a courageous genius. If you don't understand how he uses logic, don't worry about it, you're in the same boat as 99.9% of the human race.

Complete Lunatic Blather.......2005-02-06

The one positive review of this new age blather, the one that praises it's LOGIC, is what proves the absurdity of this book. Anyone with any understanding of physics beyond the laws of Newton knows that logic does not apply. How logical is Special Relativity or quantum mechanics? These theories are so counterintuitive it makes one's head spin, but that certainly does not render them false. This book only makes for good reading at the Burning Man festival or UFO conventions. Please save your time and money and pass on it.

Absolutely brilliant.......2005-01-15

Bros is an extremely intelligent writer who has somehow managed to shake off the weight of mainstream scientific political correctness and give us a better look at how the universe may really be organized.

The reviews below that claim Bros gives no scientific support for his arguments completely miss the mark. Bros uses LOGIC, impeccable logic in most cases, to show that many areas of mainstream science are lacking in any logical foundation. You do not need a scientific citation to establish the validity of a logical statement, but you do need to be able to THINK LOGICALLY, a trait that the reviewers below lack as well as most American scientists and almost all American students. Bravo to Bros for having the intellect and the courage to attack the most basic concepts of modern scientific thought.

horrific,nonsensical run on illogical mish mash,PSYCHOTIC.......2000-05-31

i happen to agree with most if not all of the authors contentions, unfortunately his books are written in a long nonsensical run on type of sentance and he offers not a single example of evidence for ANYTHING! ...this book is written (no JOKING) like a serial killer with half a mind sitting in a cell writting his world conspiracy manifesto..I swear all jokes aside this book is written in such a jumbling irrational manner i can narry fathom ANY publisher accepting it under any circumstances....the way and means in which the book is written should be a study for psychologists for how a disturbed mind works and writes..This is no joke or pun...This book is HIGHGLY disturbing..

Nebulous.......1999-06-13

The book is well organized, and offers much information, but it somehow misses the intented impact that the author promises. It has mass but is still a "light-weight".

Day Light, Night Light: Where Light Comes From (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

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Good but limited

Day Light, Night Light: Where Light Comes From (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
Franklyn M. Branley
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ASIN: 0064451712

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Moonlight is really sunlight!

Did you know that the moon doesn't make its own light? Instead, it receives light from the sun and reflects it to us on the Earth. Read and find out about how the sun, the stars and light bulbs make light so we can see.Did you know that moonlight is really sunlight? The moon can't make its own light, so it receives light from the sun and then sends it to us here on the Earth.

Any child who's ever wondered about the fascinating properties of light will want to read this classic science title. Readers will even learn how fast light can travel: from the moon to the Earth in less than three seconds! Veteran science author Franklyn M. Branley's lively text and Stacey Schuett's new illustrations combine fun facts and hands-on activities in this accessible introduction to the science of light.

Did you know that moonlight is really sunlight? The moon can't make its own light, so it receives light from the sun and then sends it to us here on the Earth.

Any child who's ever wondered about the fascinating properties of light will want to read this classic science title. Readers will even learn how fast light can travel: from the moon to the Earth in less than three seconds! Veteran science author Franklyn M. Branley's lively text and Stacey Schuett's new illustrations combine fun facts and hands-on activities in this accessible introduction to the science of light.

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Good but limited.......2000-04-27

As usual, Branley has presented science in a clear and very readable format. However, Day Light, Night Light has a limited content scope--natural and man-made sources of light and seeing objects from reflected light. Other books in this "Let's read and find out science" series have a much broader usability because of the excellent content which stretches their appropriateness higher than the reading level of the text. I often look for books by Branley and others in this series for my curriculum development work.

X-Ray Spectroscopy in Astrophysics: Lectures Held at the Astrophysics School X Organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network (EADN) in Amsterdam, ... - October 3, 1997 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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X-Ray Spectroscopy in Astrophysics: Lectures Held at the Astrophysics School X Organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network (EADN) in Amsterdam, ... - October 3, 1997 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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ASIN: 3540655484

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This volume contains a comprehensive treatment of X-ray spectroscopy, as applied in astrophysics. It is presented in the form of extensive notes of lectures given by seven distinguished scientists at the Tenth Summer School of the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network. The subjects covered are: basic line and continuum radiation processes in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy; atomic physics of collision- and radiation-dominated plasmas; X-ray spectroscopic observations with ASCA and BeppoSAX; future X-ray spectroscopy missions; X-ray optics, and X-ray spectroscopy instrumentation. The book, which will appeal to both researchers and graduate students, is timely in view of the scheduled launches of the big X-ray observatories AXAF and XMM in 1999.

Galileo Galilei: First Physicist (Oxford Portraits in Science)

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Galileo Galilei: First Physicist (Oxford Portraits in Science)
James MacLachlan
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ASIN: 0195131703

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The scientific innovations of Galileo Galilei are pivotal to our understanding of the laws of the natural world. Drawing on his diverse studies in philosophy, mathematics, mechanics, music, astronomy, and engineering, Galileo developed revolutionary theories that thoroughly changed the disciplines of physics, mathematics, astronomy, and technology. Galileo Galilei traces the great scientist's education, describes his maverick experiments in Padua and Pisa, and recreates the ingenious pathway of his famous discoveries. Often censored and imprisoned for his radical ideas that clashed with fundamental Church doctrines, Galileo persisted in his pursuit of scientific truths to bestow upon future generations the inspiration to challenge conventional views. His theories about the motions of falling bodies, his study of pendulums, and his major discoveries in astronomy made with a self-built telescope are all clearly explained in this volume. Heavily illustrated with photographs, graphics, and technical schemes, Galileo Galilei also features a number of sidebars elucidating important details of the great man's contributions. Oxford Portraits in Science is a collection of scientific biographies for young adults. Written by top scholars and writers, each biography examines the personality of its subject as well as the thought process leading to his or her discoveries. These illustrated biographies combine accessible technical information with compelling personal stories to portray the scientists whose work has shaped our understanding of the natural world.

3 K Cosmology: Ec-Tmr Conference Rome, Italy October 1998 (Aip Conference Proceedings)

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3 K Cosmology: Ec-Tmr Conference Rome, Italy October 1998 (Aip Conference Proceedings)

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Big Bang Cosmology is now a wide research field spanning the search of dark matter to space observations of cosmic background anisotropies. The proceedings of this conference bring together the work of high energy physicists and cosmologists. In each field, alternative interpretations and crucial future observations are discussed, such as: What is the best experiment for detecting dark matter? What is the crucial observation for measuring such cosmological parameters as the Hubble Constant? Are galaxies formed through growing gravitational instabilities or through the condensation of matter around topological defects? To what degree are the anisotropies of CBR observed by COBE and other experiments contaminated by known and unknown galactic components?

The Active X-Ray Sky (Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings, Supplements, V. 69/1-3.)

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The Active X-Ray Sky (Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings, Supplements, V. 69/1-3.)

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The conference on Active X-Ray Sky was held approximately two years after the launch of the Rossi-Xte and RXTE satellites. The objective of these proceedings was to incorporate results not only from these two missions, but to review recent developments about the Active X-ray Sky as obtained from the four currectly active X-ray missions, as well as from the Copton Gamma-ray Observatory.

Some of the very dramatic findings were: the discovery of X-ray and optical afterglow in Gamma Ray Bursts; the discovery of X-ray oscillations at kilohertz frequencies from binary systems and the discovery of correlated IR flares, radio flares and X-ray dip-flare cycles in microquasars. These results have yielded dramatic new insights into our physical universe. Other important results reported or reviewed here include the detection of extreme high-energy emission in the active binary stars Algol and UX Ari, resonant absorption scattering from the Perseus Cluster, and cyclotron lines from pulsars. These and many other recent and important results are published here, resulting in a state-of-art review by experts currently active in the field.

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