Tides

Tides

Author: David Edgar Cartwright

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-08-17

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780521797467

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A history of the study of the tides over two millennia, from Ancient Greeks to present sophisticated space-age techniques.


Speculative Truth

Speculative Truth

Author: Russell McCormmach

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2004-03-18

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0190289511

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With a never-before published paper by Lord Henry Cavendish, as well as a biography on him, this book offers a fascinating discourse on the rise of scientific attitudes and ways of knowing. A pioneering British physicist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Cavendish was widely considered to be the first full-time scientist in the modern sense. Through the lens of this unique thinker and writer, this book is about the birth of modern science.