The How and the Why David Park ; with drawings by Robin Brickman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Park, David, 1919-2012.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics--History.

Science--History.

Science.

Physics.

Astronomy.

Astronomy--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

3rd print., with corrections.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1990, 1988.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The description for this book, The How and the Why, will be forthcoming.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Note on References

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 What Is the World?

CHAPTER 2 HOW Is It Built?

CHAPTER 3 How Should We Think About It?

CHAPTER 4 The Sky Is a Machine

CHAPTER 5 The Christian Cosmos

CHAPTER 6 What Are These Things I See?

CHAPTER 7 The Wider Shores of Knowledge

CHAPTER 8 Illumination

CHAPTER 9 The Spheres Are Broken

CHAPTER 10 Influences

CHAPTER 11 They Move According to Number

CHAPTER 12 Time, Space, and Form

CHAPTER 13 A World of Bronze and Marble

CHAPTER 14 Two Theories of Relativity

CHAPTER 15 Very Small and Far Away

CHAPTER 16 Does It Make Sense?

CHAPTER 17 Moving Down the Scale

CHAPTER 18 And Now the Universe

CHAPTER 19 Order and Law

NOTE A Hero's Principle

NOTE B Fermat's Principle

NOTE C Newton's Theorem

NOTE D Calculation of the Moon's Period

NOTE E The Law of Areas

NOTE F Elliptical Orbits

NOTE G Derivation of Young's Formula

NOTE H Of Time and the River

NOTE I The Mass of a Moving Object

NOTE J The Two-Slit Experiment in Quantum Mechanics

NOTE K Quantum Correlations That Suggest Action at a Distance

NOTE L The Troublesome Question of How Things Look

NOTE M Theory of the Expanding Universe

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-451) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691221670

0691221677

OCLC:

1206239878