The how and the why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical Theory

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Princeton University Press, Sep 21, 1990 - Science - 459 pages

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Contents

What Is the World?
3
How Is It Built?
24
How Should We Think About It?
32
them
36
The Sky Is a Machine
54
less than half of the sphere would be visible at night
60
The Christian Cosmos
78
What Are These Things I See?
95
Time Space and Form
224
A World of Bronze and Marble
243
of a magnetic field by an electric current 2017
272
Two Theories of Relativity
275
Very Small and Far Away
305
nuclei in gold foil
311
Does It Make Sense?
334
Moving Down the Scale
352

The Wider Shores of Knowledge
109
Illumination
124
The Spheres Are Broken
142
according to reason they are neatly arranged
161
CHAPTER IO Influences
170
The magnetic field at the earths surface
175
They Move According to Number
202
And Now the Universe
372
Order and Law
387
NOTE A Heros Principle
407
NOTE J The TwoSlit Experiment in Quantum
420
Bibliography
433
Index
453
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