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Télécharger le livre :  Averroes' Physics
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Averroes' Physics


Ruth Glasner


Ruth Glasner presents an illuminating reappraisal of Averroes' physics. Glasner is the first scholar to base her interpretation on the full range of Averroes' writings, including texts that are extant only in Hebrew manuscripts and have not been hitherto studied. She...

Parution : 2009-06-18
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  From Genesis to Prehistory
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From Genesis to Prehistory


Peter Rowley-Conwy


We are now familiar with the Three Age System, the archaeological partitioning of the past into Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. This division, which amounted at the time to a major scientific revolution, was conceived in Denmark in the 1830s. Peter Rowley-Conwy...

Parution : 2007-11-01
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Gauging What's Real
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Gauging What's Real


Richard Healey


Gauge theories have provided our most successful representations of the fundamental forces of nature. How, though, do such representations work? Interpretations of gauge theory aim to answer this question. Through understanding how a gauge theory's representations work,...

Parution : 2007-09-27
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Science in the Looking Glass
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Science in the Looking Glass


E. Brian Davies


How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why does proof mean different things in different sciences? Do numbers exist, or were they invented? Why do some laws turn out to be wrong? In this wide-ranging book, Brian Davies discusses the basis for scientists' claims to...

Parution : 2007-06-28
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Identity in Physics
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Identity in Physics


Steven French , Décio Krause


Can quantum particles be regarded as individuals, just like books, tables and people? According to the 'received' view - articulated by several physicists in the immediate aftermath of the quantum revolution - quantum physics itself tells us they cannot: quantum...

Parution : 2006-06-22
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Essential Turing
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The Essential Turing


B. Jack. Copeland


Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and WWII codebreaker, is one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this volume for the first time his key writings are made available to a broad, non-specialist readership. They make fascinating...

Parution : 2004-09-10
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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The Essential Turing


B. Jack. Copeland


Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and WWII codebreaker, is one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this volume for the first time his key writings are made available to a broad, non-specialist readership. They make fascinating...

Parution : 2004-09-09
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Explanations
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Explanations


John Cornwell


Our lives, states of health, relationships, behaviour, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations. Widespread confusion...

Parution : 2004-04-22
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Explanations
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Explanations


John Cornwell


Our lives, states of health, relationships, behaviour, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations. Widespread confusion...

Parution : 2004-04-22
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  How the Laws of Physics Lie
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How the Laws of Physics Lie


Nancy Cartwright


In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, Nancy Cartwright argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe the regularities that exist in nature. Yet she is not...

Parution : 1983-06-09
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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