World of Scientific Discovery
Author: Kimberley A. McGrath
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 1206
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScientific milestones and the people who made them possible.
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A Century of Nature
Author: Laura Garwin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0226284166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of the scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature. A Century of Nature brings together in one volume Nature's greatest hits—reproductions of seminal contributions that changed science and the world, accompanied by essays written by leading scientists (including four Nobel laureates) that provide historical context for each article, explain its insights in graceful, accessible prose, and celebrate the serendipity of discovery and the rewards of searching for needles in haystacks.
World Of Discovery Complete Set
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Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2021-11-26
Total Pages: 1296
ISBN-13: 9811243565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe is a specially curated selection of children's books that focus on discovering Asia and discovering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). Under the guidance of Dr Ruth Y L Wong, these books aim to promote reading for pleasure, while exciting kids through discovery. With 51 books in this inaugural batch, and with more to come, the books are divided into three levels depending on the child's reading ability: A (Achieving), B (Blooming) and C (Confident). Each book includes a story-based activity at the end of the books to help parents and educators get children to engage with the story.Includes these 51 titles:
100 Science Discoveries
Author: Colin Salter
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: 2021-10-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1911663542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible compendium of the world’s greatest scientists and the stories behind their dramatic breakthroughs From the early Greek mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, this collection charts the great breakthroughs in scientific understanding. Each entry describes the story of the research, the significance of the science, and its impact on the scientific world, along with a résumé of each scientist’s career. From Roger Bacon’s revolutionary work on optics and Copernicus’s heliocentric model of the universe to Feynman diagrams and gravitational waves, this latest book in the award-winning “100” series serves as a short history of world science, illustrated with drawings, diagrams, and photographs.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Author: Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the 20th century.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Author: Karl Popper
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-11-04
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 1134470029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribed by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well as post-war philosophy. This astonishing work ranks alongside The Open Society and Its Enemies as one of Popper's most enduring books and contains insights and arguments that demand to be read to this day.
An Imagined World
Author: J. Goodfield
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring Science
Author: David Klahr
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780262611763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Klahr suggests that we now know enough about cognition--and hence about everyday thinking--to advance our understanding of scientific thinking.
Reinventing Discovery
Author: Michael Nielsen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0691202850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the internet and powerful online tools are democratizing and accelerating scientific discovery Reinventing Discovery argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than three hundred years. This change is being driven by powerful cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business, the workplace, or government. But this is the first book about something much more fundamental: how the internet is transforming our collective intelligence and our understanding of the world. From the collaborative mathematicians of the Polymath Project to the amateur astronomers of Galaxy Zoo, Reinventing Discovery tells the exciting story of the unprecedented new era in networked science. It will interest anyone who wants to learn about how the online world is revolutionizing scientific discovery—and why the revolution is just beginning.
Science in the Contemporary World
Author: Eric G. Swedin
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2005-03-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1851095241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introductory A-Z resource detailing the scientific achievements of the contemporary world and analyzing the key scientific trends, discoveries, and personalities of the modern age.
