Greenberg A. From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story

Anchor Books. 1965. 278 p. The Ancients Alchemy Transition The Gases Atoms Organic Chemistry Molecular Structure The Periodic table Physical Chemistry Synthetic Organic Chemistry Electrons The Nuclear Atom Nuclear Reactions

Oxford University Press, 2011, 469 pages Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. Its concepts underpin much of the twenty-first century technology that we now take for granted. But at the same time it has completely undermined our ability to make sense of the world at its most fundamental level. Niels Bohr claimed that anybody who is not shoc...

Springer, 2011. - 206 pp. The ability to see is fundamental to our very existence. How true our perceptions really are depends upon many factors, and not least is our understanding of what light is and how it interacts with matter. It was said that the camera, the icon of light recording instruments, never lies, and in the day of the glass plate and celluloid roll-film this might well have been true. But in this modern era, with electronic camera...

Springer, 2011. - 261 p. In Miletus, about 550 B.C., together with our world-picture cosmology was born. This book tells the story. In Part One the reader is introduced in the archaic world-picture of a flat earth with the cupola of the celestial vault onto which the celestial bodies are attached. One of the subjects treated in that context is the riddle of the tilted celestial axis. This part also contains an extensive chapter on archaic astrono...

WIT Press, 2008, 310 pages This book gives a comprehensive picture of the activities and the creative heritage of Simon Stevin, who made outstanding contributions to various fields of science in particular, physics and mathematics and many more. Among the striking spectrum of his ingenious achievements, it is worth emphasizing that Simon Stevin is rightly considered as the father of decimal fractions as they are in use today. Stevin also urged...

Times Books, 2001. - 379 pp. There is politics in everything, including the most prestigious awards in science; here's the inside story, told by a historian of science currently living in Norway. When Alfred Nobel left the bulk of his fortune to found a series of prizes in the arts and sciences, he must have foreseen some of the infighting that would rage around his bequest. To begin with, he designated several rival bodies within the Swedish sci...

Cambridge University Press, 1995. - 323 pp. Fritz London was one of the twentieth century's key figures in the development of quantum physics. A quiet and self-effacing man, he was one of the founders of quantum chemistry, and was the first to give a phenomenological explanation of superconductivity. This thoroughly researched biography gives a detailed account of London's life and work in Munich, Berlin, Oxford, Paris, and finally in the United...

Publisher: Springer in association with Praxis Publishing, 2007. 344 pages. Language: English. This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar program: from its origins to the present day. It’s lavishly illustrated with images, tables and maps, and is a veritable who’s who of names both familiar and previously unheard.

Publisher: K.n.o.p.f 1992 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 0679734155 | PDF | 6 MB Like most other human artifacts, the common pencil, made and sold today by the millions, has a long and complex history. Henry Petroski, who combines a talent for fine writing with a deep knowledge of engineering and technological history, examines the story of the pencil, considering it not only as a thing in itself, but also as an exemplar of all things that are designed and...

Springer, 2005. - 220 pp. The mathematician and physicist Galileo Galilei is one of the most famous scientists of all times. The story of his life and times, of his epoch-making experiments and discoveries, of his stubbornness and pride, of his patrons in the house of Medici, of his enemies and friends in their struggle for truth - all is brought vividly to life in this book. Atle N?ss has written a gripping account of one of the great figures in...