The dream universe : how fundamental physics lost its way / David Lindley.
The dream universe : how fundamental physics lost its way / David Lindley.
The dream universe : how fundamental physics lost its way / David Lindley.
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Publisher
New York : Doubleday, [2020]
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G 2020/2811
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
New York : Doubleday, [2020]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2020]
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Summary
In the early seventeenth century Galileo broke free from the hold of ancient Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. He drastically changed the framework through which we view the natural world when he asserted that we should base our theory of reality on what we can observe rather than pure thought. In the process, he invented what we would come to...
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The dream universe : how fundamental physics lost its way / David Lindley.
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Includes bibliographical resources (pages [205]-212) and index.
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©2020.
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G 2020/2811
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74VKadPJzzoX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKadPJzzoX
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ISBN
9780385543859
0385543859
DDC
530.09
MMS ID
991024317386102626
