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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... Kepler's first law , he did not stop with his derivation . He was not satisfied either with his lectures De Motu Cor- porum in gyrum that he gave subsequently . He had to write the entire Principia : and he wrote it with a speed and a ...
... Kepler's first law , he did not stop with his derivation . He was not satisfied either with his lectures De Motu Cor- porum in gyrum that he gave subsequently . He had to write the entire Principia : and he wrote it with a speed and a ...
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... Kepler , Galileo , and Newton was passed on to Laplace and Lagrange . It is of course idle for any normal person to wish to emulate , in scale or in magnitude , the examples of Newton , Kepler , and Galileo . But the examples do suggest ...
... Kepler , Galileo , and Newton was passed on to Laplace and Lagrange . It is of course idle for any normal person to wish to emulate , in scale or in magnitude , the examples of Newton , Kepler , and Galileo . But the examples do suggest ...
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... Kepler can be understood only by constant reference to the ancient methods This lecture was given on 26 March 1946 as a part of The Works of the Mind lecture series sponsored by the University of Chicago . It was published in The Works ...
... Kepler can be understood only by constant reference to the ancient methods This lecture was given on 26 March 1946 as a part of The Works of the Mind lecture series sponsored by the University of Chicago . It was published in The Works ...
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... Kepler of the laws of planetary mo- tion after long and patient analysis of the extensive observations of Tycho Brahe . These laws of Kepler led Newton to his celebrated laws of gravitation , which occupied the central scientific arena ...
... Kepler of the laws of planetary mo- tion after long and patient analysis of the extensive observations of Tycho Brahe . These laws of Kepler led Newton to his celebrated laws of gravitation , which occupied the central scientific arena ...
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... Kepler's laws . Newton showed that Kepler's second law - that planets describe equal areas in equal times - implies a central force , that is , a force directed toward the sun ; that the first law - that the planetary orbits are ...
... Kepler's laws . Newton showed that Kepler's second law - that planets describe equal areas in equal times - implies a central force , that is , a force directed toward the sun ; that the first law - that the planetary orbits are ...
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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