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  • Poesia e musica della scienza

    par Tom McLeish ...
    Traduit par Chiara Veltri ...
    Collections series Visioni
    Quali capacità sono necessarie per fare scienza e quali per fare arte? Molti indicherebbero certo l'"immaginazione" e la "creatività" nel secondo caso ma difficilmente nel primo. Tom McLeish sfida invece l'assunto che occuparsi di scienza sia in qualche modo meno creativo del dedicarsi all'arte, alla musica, alla scrittura e alla poesia. I racconti di personalità famose in entrambi gli ambiti – da ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Poetry and Music of Science

    Comparing Creativity in Science and Art

    par Tom McLeish ...
    What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the second case but not the first. This book challenges the assumption that doing science is in any sense less creative than art, music or fictional writing and poetry, and treads a historical and contemporary path through common territories of the ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Science, Religion, and the Human Future

    Conflict, Collusion, and Consequences

    par Amanda Rees, Franziska E. Kohlt, Tom McLeish, Charlotte Sleigh, David Wilkinson ...
    Science, Religion, and the Human Future: Conflict, Collusion, and Consequences demonstrates that the myth of an inevitable conflict between science and faith is based on a misunderstanding of history, with potentially adverse consequences for human futures. The work focuses first upon ancient, medieval and Islamic scholars and the intimate connections they made between theology and the ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Faith and Wisdom in Science

    par Tom McLeish ...
    "Can you Count the Clouds?" asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature-questions from the Old Testament Book of Job. Tom McLeish takes a scientist's reading of this ancient text as a centrepiece to make the case for science as a deeply human and ancient activity, embedded in some of the oldest stories told about human desire to understand the natural ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Soft Matter

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Tom McLeish ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Soft Matter science is concerned with soft materials such as polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, and foams, and has emerged as a rich interdisciplinary field over the last 30 years. Drawing on physics, chemistry, mathematics and engineering, soft matter links fundamental scientific ideas to everyday phenomena. One such example is 'polymers', encountered in plastic materials and melted cheese, ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Let there be Science

    Why God loves science, and science needs God

    par Tom McLeish, David Hutchings ...
    Throughout history, scientists have made discoveries and tested hypotheses that have revolutionised the way that we see the world. Our industry has been shaped by the discovery of electricity and the invention of machines; our understanding of the world has deepened as we have had gravity and the magnetic forces that govern the earth explained to us.Century after century, big questions about our ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Faith and Wisdom in Science

    par Tom McLeish ...
    "Can you Count the Clouds?" asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature-questions from the Old Testament Book of Job. Tom McLeish takes a scientist's reading of this ancient text as a centrepiece to make the case for science as a deeply human and ancient activity, embedded in some of the oldest stories told about human desire to understand the natural ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

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    Eclipse & Revelation

    Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts

    par Tom McLeish, Henrike C. Lange ...
    Lu par Christopher Hallett ...

    Version Longue

    13 heure 32 min

    Two questions guide this seven-year project: First, how can we approach the phenomenon, representation, and interpretation of total solar eclipses? Second, how can we heal the historical divide separating the natural sciences from the humanities, arts, history, music, and theology?The result of this interdisciplinary investigation into eclipses is an exciting look behind the scenes—into labs, ... En savoir plus

    $35.72 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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    An Existential Detective Story

    par Jim Holt ...
    “I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book.”—Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Review, front-page reviewTackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway bestseller, which has ... En savoir plus

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  • Brilliant Blunders

    From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

    par Mario Livio ...
    Drawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery.Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein all made groundbreaking contributions to their fields—but each also stumbled badly. Darwin’s theory of ... En savoir plus

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  • Fermat’s Last Theorem

    par Simon Singh ...
    ‘I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.’It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat’s Last Theorem was the most notorious unsolved mathematical problem, a puzzle whose basics most children could grasp but whose solution ... En savoir plus

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  • The Great Mathematicians

    Unravelling the Mysteries of the Universe

    par Raymond Flood, Robin Wilson ...
    Why did Florence Nightingale introduce pie charts? How did Lewis Carroll regard Pythagoras? Who learned calculus from her nursery wallpaper?Spanning from the ancient world to the modern age, The Great Mathematicians tells fascinating and unusual tales of the men and women who transformed mathematics. We meet the mathematician who knew eight languages by the time he was 11, the one who was sent to ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus