How and the Why

Name: How and the Why
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ISBN: 9780691025087

ISBN-10: 0691025088

ISBN-13: 9780691025087

Edition: 1988

Authors: David Park, Robin Brickman

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Book details

List price: $79.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/21/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 530
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.45" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Acknowledgments


Note on References


Introduction



What Is the World?



How Is It Built?



How Should We Think About It?



The Sky Is a Machine



The Christian Cosmos



What Are These Things I See?



The Wider Shores of Knowledge



Illumination



The Spheres Are Broken



Influences



They Move According to Number



Time, Space, and Form



A World of Bronze and Marble



Two Theories of Relativity



Very Small and Far Away



Does It Make Sense?



Moving Down the Scale



And Now the Universe



Order and Law



Hero's Principle



Fermat's Principle



Newton's Theorem



Calculation of the Moon's Period



The Law of Areas



Elliptical Orbits



Derivation of Young's Formula



Of Time and the River



The Mass of a Moving Object



The Two-Slit Experiment in Quantum Mechanics



Quantum Correlations That Suggest Action at a Distance



The Troublesome Question of How Things Look



Theory of the Expanding Universe


Bibliography


Index