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The birth of a new physics / by I. Bernard Cohen.
LIBRA QC122 .C6 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mechanics.
- Celestial mechanics.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [1985]
- Summary:
- The Birth of a New Physics has been written for the general reader, for students in high schools or colleges (studying science, philosophy, or history), for historians and philosophers, and for anyone who may wish to understand the dynamic, adventurous quality of science. The author's intention is to explore one aspect of that great Scientific Revolution that occurred during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to clarify certain fundamental aspects of the nature and development of modern science.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0393019942
- OCLC:
- 11442169
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