Atom from the Sun of Knowledge
Atom from the Sun of Knowledge

Author: Lex Hixon

Publisher: PIR Publications

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781879708051

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This comprehensive volume is an initiation into Sufism by a Western teacher of Islamic mysticism who saw in this ancient tradition a universal path to enlightenment. Atom from the Sun of Knowledge explores the spiritual secrets of many of the practices of Islam and interprets the spiritual wealth of its sacred book, the Koran, and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, or the Hadith. The volume also contains modern ecstatic Sufi poetry and spiritual discourses that illuminate the essential unity of all existence and the immense love at its heart.

Sun in a Bottle
Sun in a Bottle

Author: Charles Seife

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780670020331

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Chronicles the last half century's haphazard attempt to harness fusion energy, describing how governments and research teams throughout the world have employed measures ranging from the controversial to the humorous.

Atom
Atom

Author: Isaac Asimov

Publisher: Plume

Published: 1992-08

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13:

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Traces the path of discovery that revealed the nature of the atom, of light, of gravity, of the electromagnetic force, and the nature and structure of the universe.

Atom and Void
Atom and Void

Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1400860288

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J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the outstanding physicists of his generation. He was also an immensely gifted writer and speaker, who thought deeply about the way that scientific discoveries have changed the way people live and think. Displaying his subtlety of thought and expression as do few other documents, this book of his lectures discusses the moral and cultural implications of developments in modern physics. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Readings in Cognitive Science
Readings in Cognitive Science

Author: Allan Collins

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-02

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 148321446X

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Readings in Cognitive Science: A Perspective from Psychology and Artificial Intelligence brings together important studies that fall in the intersection between artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology. This book is composed of six chapters, and begins with the complex anatomy and physiology of the human brain. The next chapters deal with the components of cognitive science, such as the semantic memory, similarity and analogy, and learning. These chapters also consider the application of mental models, which represent the domain-specific knowledge needed to understand a dynamic system or natural physical phenomena. The remaining chapters discuss the concept of reasoning, problem solving, planning, vision, and imagery. This book is of value to psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and researchers who are interested in cognition.

The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone
The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone

Author: Alan Chalmers

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-06-04

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9048123623

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Drawing on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others the author offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century. This is not history for its own sake. By critically reflecting on the various versions of atomic theories of the past the author is able to grapple with the question of what sets scientific knowledge apart from other kinds of knowledge, philosophical knowledge in particular. He thereby engages historically with issues concerning the nature and status of scientific knowledge that were dealt with in a more abstract way in his What Is This Thing Called Science?, a book that has been a standard text in philosophy of science for three decades and which is available in nineteen languages. Speculations about the fundamental structure of matter from Democritus to the seventeenth-century mechanical philosophers and beyond are construed as categorically distinct from atomic theories amenable to experimental investigation and support and as contributing little to the latter from a historical point of view. The thesis will provoke historians and philosophers of science alike and will require a revision of a range of standard views in the history of science and philosophy. The book is key reading for students and scholars in History and Philosophy of Science and will be instructive for and provide a challenge to philosophers, historians and scientists more generally.