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Explanations eBook Serie

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  • Science and Religion: The Myth of Conflict

    door Professor Stephen M Barr ...
    Serie series Explanations
    Professor Barr overturns the widespread notions that the history of science and religion is one of conflict and abuse. He looks at the historical, philosophical and scientific claims of enmity between science and religion and proves that they have very little basis in fact. Indeed in many places they are the very opposite of what history and science have to tell us. The myth that scientific ... Meer lezen

    4,34 €

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  • To Explain the World

    The Discovery of Modern Science

    door Steven Weinberg ...
    The Nobel Prize–winner shares "a masterful journey through humankind's scientific coming-of-age" from the Greeks to modern times (Brian Greene).In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries of human striving to unravel the mysteries of the world. This sweeping saga ranges from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford ... Meer lezen

    13,03 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Great Mathematicians

    door Raymond Flood, Robin Wilson ...
    Mathematics pervades our daily lives. It is intimately involved whenever one starts a car, switches on the television, flies on a plane, forecasts the weather, books a holiday on the internet, programmes a computer, navigates heavy traffic, analyses statistical data, or seeks a cure for a disease. Our credit cards and the nation's defence secrets are kept secure by encryption methods based on ... Meer lezen

    3,17 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Accidental Universe

    The World You Thought You Knew

    door Alan Lightman ...
    In The Accidental Universe, physicist and novelist Alan Lightman explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by discoveries in science, focusing most intently on the human condition and the needs of humankind.Here, in a collection of exhilarating essays, Lightman shows us our own universe from a series of fascinating and diverse perspectives. He takes on the difficult dialogue ... Meer lezen

    3,99 €

  • Zero

    The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

    door Charles Seife ...
    A New York Times Notable Book.The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations of modern physics. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathematics. For zero, infinity's twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing ... Meer lezen

    9,64 €

  • Is God a Mathematician?

    door Mario Livio ...
    Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how—if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind—it can so perfectly explain the physical world.Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? ... Meer lezen

    16,76 €

  • The Devil's Delusion

    Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions

    door David Berlinski ...
    From a bestselling author, an “incendiary and uproarious” assault on the pretensions of scientific atheists (National Review)Militant atheism is on the rise. Prominent thinkers including Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have published best-selling books denigrating religious belief. And these authors are merely the leading edge of a larger movement that ... Meer lezen

    9,99 €

  • The Motion Paradox

    The 2,500-Year Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space

    door Joseph Mazur ...
    The epic tale of an ancient, unsolved puzzle and how it relates to all scientific attempts to explain the basic structure of the universeAt the dawn of science the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno formulated his paradox of motion, and amazingly, it is still on the cutting edge of all investigations into the fabric of reality.Zeno used logic to argue that motion is impossible, and at the heart of his ... Meer lezen

    5,71 €

  • Amazing Truths

    How Science and the Bible Agree

    door Michael Guillen ...
    Does science discredit the Bible, God, religious faith?Absolutely not, says Dr. Michael Guillen, former Harvard physics instructor and Emmy-winning ABC News Science Editor. In Amazing Truths, he uses his entertaining, down-to-earth storytelling skills to reveal ten astonishing truths affirmed by both ancient Scripture and modern science that answer some of our biggest questions:Can faith really ... Meer lezen

    8,99 €

  • The Physics of Christianity

    door Frank J. Tipler ...
    A highly respected physicist demonstrates that the essential beliefs of Christianity are wholly consistent with the laws of physics.Frank Tipler takes an exciting new approach to the age-old dispute about the relationship between science and religion in The Physics of Christianity. In reviewing centuries of writings and discussions, Tipler realized that in all the debate about science versus ... Meer lezen

    6,67 €

  • The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    door Lawrence M. Principe ...
    Serie series Very Short Introductions
    The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific Revolution.' New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves with respect to the strange new worlds revealed by ships and scalpels, telescopes and microscopes, ... Meer lezen

    7,19 €

  • The Archimedes Codex

    Revealing The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Palimpsest

    door Reviel Netz, William Noel ...
    The story of the amazing discovery of Archimedes' lost worksDrawings and writings by Archimedes, previously thought to have been destroyed, have been uncovered beneath the pages of a 13th-century monk's prayer book. These hidden texts, slowly being retrieved and deciphered by scientists, show that Archimedes' thinking (2,200 years ago) was even ahead of Isaac Newton in the 17th century.Archimedes ... Meer lezen

    3,99 €