Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science"What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity."—Sir Hermann Bondi, Nature The late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, including The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes and, most recently, Newton's Principia for the Common Reader. |
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... field of atomic physics . Indeed , the first example of a law which may be called " basic " is astronomical in origin . I refer to the discovery by Kepler of the laws of planetary mo- tion after long and patient analysis of the ...
... field of atomic physics . Indeed , the first example of a law which may be called " basic " is astronomical in origin . I refer to the discovery by Kepler of the laws of planetary mo- tion after long and patient analysis of the ...
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... fields of astronomy to which Newton's laws could be profitably applied . The newest of these relates to the motions in the galaxy as a whole and the new branch of dynamics called “ stellar dynamics , " which is rapidly growing in range ...
... fields of astronomy to which Newton's laws could be profitably applied . The newest of these relates to the motions in the galaxy as a whole and the new branch of dynamics called “ stellar dynamics , " which is rapidly growing in range ...
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... field and how it was later confirmed . In telling this story , I shall quote from a lecture by Eddington , who was chiefly responsible for the verification . The most exciting event I can recall in my own connection with Astronomy is ...
... field and how it was later confirmed . In telling this story , I shall quote from a lecture by Eddington , who was chiefly responsible for the verification . The most exciting event I can recall in my own connection with Astronomy is ...
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... field two inci- dental details for special consideration , it is not because I attach any undue importance or significance to them , but only because I happen to be specially interested in them . What I want to say relates to the two ...
... field two inci- dental details for special consideration , it is not because I attach any undue importance or significance to them , but only because I happen to be specially interested in them . What I want to say relates to the two ...
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Contents
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Its Motivations 1985 | 15 |
Shakespeare Newton and Beethoven or Patterns of Creativity 1975 | 29 |
4 Beauty and the Quest for Beauty in Science 1979 | 59 |
Edward Arthur Milne His Part in the Development of Modern Astrophysics 1979 | 74 |
1982 Eddington The Most Distinguished Astrophysicist of His Time | 93 |
The Aesthetic Base of the General Theory of Relativity 1986 | 144 |
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