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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... observations were constantly compared with those of Ptolemy and so on . This must be paralleled with the total loss of understanding of the higher branches of Greek mathematics before one realizes that as- tronomy is the most direct ...
... observations were constantly compared with those of Ptolemy and so on . This must be paralleled with the total loss of understanding of the higher branches of Greek mathematics before one realizes that as- tronomy is the most direct ...
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... observation and its correct interpre- tation led to a revolution in scientific thought unparalleled in the an- nals ... observations of Tycho Brahe . These laws of Kepler led Newton to his celebrated laws of gravitation , which occupied ...
... observation and its correct interpre- tation led to a revolution in scientific thought unparalleled in the an- nals ... observations of Tycho Brahe . These laws of Kepler led Newton to his celebrated laws of gravitation , which occupied ...
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... observation . In 1803 William Herschel was able to announce from his study of close pairs of stars that in some in- stances the pairs represented real physical binaries , revolving in orbits about each other . Herschel was further able ...
... observation . In 1803 William Herschel was able to announce from his study of close pairs of stars that in some in- stances the pairs represented real physical binaries , revolving in orbits about each other . Herschel was further able ...
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... observations , that it is no exaggeration to say that this atom consisting of a proton and two electrons , which was predicted by the quantum theory to have a stable existence , has now been identified on the sun . So far I have ...
... observations , that it is no exaggeration to say that this atom consisting of a proton and two electrons , which was predicted by the quantum theory to have a stable existence , has now been identified on the sun . So far I have ...
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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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