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The Moon Show
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Carmen Gloria; Illustrated by Carmen Gloria
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Die vorliegende Schrift behandelt die Kalenderlehre unter bewuBter
Ausscheidung aller historischen Betrachtungen. Liegt darin
einerseits e: ne Beschrankung, so glaubt der Ver fasser
andererseits durch die Loslosung von der vielverschlungenen und
daher mit mancherlei Ballast behafteten Entwickelungs geschichte
des Kalenderwesens dessen mathematischen Kern sozusagen reinlicher
herausschalen zu konnen, als es bei einer historischen Darstellung
moglich ware. Die Schrift wendet sich an einen sehr allgemeinen
Leser kreis. Sie mochte jedem Gebildeten zuganglich sein, der mathe
matischen Oberlegungen einfachster Art Interesse entgegen bringt.
Da und dort mag vieHeicht der Historiker bei chrono logischen
Untersuchungen aus ihr Nutzen ziehen konnen. Eine besondere Freude
ware es dem V erfasser, wenn zuweilen ein Feldgrauer nach dem
Schriftchen griffe; weiB er doch aus eigener Erfahrung, wie es
Zeiten gibt, in denen der Soldat nach irgendwelcher geistigen
Anregung hungert - ganz ab gesehen davon, daB es im Felde von
praktischem Interesse sein kann, nach kurzer Dberlegung zu wissen,
welche Mondphase einem gegebenen Datum zukommt. Aber dariiber
hinaus mochte das Biichlein auch dem an gehenden Mathematiker etwas
zu sagen haben, und vor aHem dem Unterricht an hoheren Schulen
dienen. Sollte die Schrift einem so verschiedenartigen Leserkreise
gerecht werden, so war dies nur moglich durch eine besondere
Behandlungsweise des Stoffes: die Darstellung zerfallt gewisser
maBen in mehrere "Kreise," deren jeder in sich geschlossen und
verstandlich ist. Der engste erfordert kaum mehr, als die Kennt nis
der vier Grundrechnungsarten. Der nachste setzt schon Vorwort."
'This is a nicely produced book which should appeal to a wide
readership.'The ObservatoryThis book is about the Dark Energy
Survey, a cosmological experiment designed to investigate the
physical nature of dark energy by measuring its effect on the
expansion history of the universe and on the growth of large-scale
structure. The survey saw first light in 2012, after a decade of
planning, and completed observations in 2019. The collaboration
designed and built a 570-megapixel camera and installed it on the
four-metre Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American
Observatory in the Chilean Andes. The survey data yielded a
three-dimensional map of over 300 million galaxies and a catalogue
of thousands of supernovae. Analysis of the early data has
confirmed remarkably accurately the model of cold dark matter and a
cosmological constant. The survey has also offered new insights
into galaxies, supernovae, stellar evolution, solar system objects
and the nature of gravitational wave events.A project of this scale
required the long-term commitment of hundreds of scientists from
institutions all over the world. The chapters in the first three
sections of the book were either written by these scientists or
based on interviews with them. These chapters explain, for a
non-specialist reader, the science analysis involved. They also
describe how the project was conceived, and chronicle some of the
many and diverse challenges involved in advancing our understanding
of the universe. The final section is trans-disciplinary, including
inputs from a philosopher, an anthropologist, visual artists and a
poet. Scientific collaborations are human endeavours and the book
aims to convey a sense of the wider context within which science
comes about.This book is addressed to scientists, decision makers,
social scientists and engineers, as well as to anyone with an
interest in contemporary cosmology and astrophysics.Related Link(s)
In each generation, scientists must redefine their fields:
abstracting, simplifying and distilling the previous standard
topics to make room for new advances and methods. Sethna's book
takes this step for statistical mechanics - a field rooted in
physics and chemistry whose ideas and methods are now central to
information theory, complexity, and modern biology. Aimed at
advanced undergraduates and early graduate students in all of these
fields, Sethna limits his main presentation to the topics that
future mathematicians and biologists, as well as physicists and
chemists, will find fascinating and central to their work. The
amazing breadth of the field is reflected in the author's large
supply of carefully crafted exercises, each an introduction to a
whole field of study: everything from chaos through information
theory to life at the end of the universe.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed
worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the
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edition identification: ++++ Der Ewige Kreislauf Des Weltalls: Nach
Vorlesungen Ueber Physikalische Weltanschauung An Der K.
Technischen Hochschule, Berlin Ludwig Zehnder F. Vieweg & Sohn,
1914 Science; Astronomy; Nebular hypothesis; Planetary theory;
Science / Astronomy; Solar system
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