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Written by one of the world's leading political geographers, this
fully revised and updated textbook examines the dramatic changes
wrought by ideological, economic, socio-cultural and demographic
changes unleashed since the end of the Cold War. Saul Cohen
considers these forces in the context of their human and physical
settings, and explores their geographical influence on foreign
policy and international relations.
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid
out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion
that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even
after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian
relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to
account for many of the phenomena of the observed world, and
Newtonian celestial dynamics is used to determine the orbits of our
space vehicles. This authoritative, modern translation by I.
Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, the first in more than 285 years,
is based on the 1726 edition, the final revised version approved by
Newton; it includes extracts from the earlier editions, corrects
errors found in earlier versions, and replaces archaic English with
contemporary prose and up-to-date mathematical forms. Newton's
principles describe acceleration, deceleration, and inertial
movement; fluid dynamics; and the motions of the earth, moon,
planets, and comets. A great work in itself, the Principia also
revolutionized the methods of scientific investigation. It set
forth the fundamental three laws of motion and the law of universal
gravity, the physical principles that account for the Copernican
system of the world as emended by Kepler, thus effectively ending
controversy concerning the Copernican planetary system. The
translation - only edition of this preeminent work is truly
accessible for today's scientists, scholars, and students.
Ira Lipman Marvin Wolfgang was the greatest criminologist in the
United States of America in the last half of the 20th century, if
not the entire century. We first met on March 3, 1977, in
Philadelphia. I sought him out after his work with Edwin Newman's
NBC Reports: Violence in America. He was a tender, loving, caring
individual who loved excellence-whether it be an intellectual
challenge, the arts or any other pursuit. It is a great privilege
to take part in honoring Marvin Wolfgang, a great American. Our
approaches to the subject of crime came from different perspectives
one as a researcher and the other as the founder of one of the
world's largest security services companies. We both wanted to
understand the causes of crime, and our discussions began a more
than 21-year friendship, based on mutual respect and shared values.
Dr. Wolfgang's scholarship aimed for the goal of promoting a safer,
more prosperous society, one in which economic opportunity replaced
criminal enterprise. He never saw crime in isolation but as part of
a complex web of social relations. Only by understanding the causes
and patterns of crime can society find ways to prevent it. Only
through scholarship can the criminal justice community influence
policy makers. To encourage the innovative scholarship that marked
Marvin's career, Guardsmark established the Lipman Criminology
Library at the University of Pennsylvania, at his request, and
created a national criminology award in his name, the Wolfgang
Award for Distinguished Achievement in Criminology."
Ira Lipman Marvin Wolfgang was the greatest criminologist in the
United States of America in the last half of the 20th century, if
not the entire century. We first met on March 3, 1977, in
Philadelphia. I sought him out after his work with Edwin Newman's
NBC Reports: Violence in America. He was a tender, loving, caring
individual who loved excellence-whether it be an intellectual
challenge, the arts or any other pursuit. It is a great privilege
to take part in honoring Marvin Wolfgang, a great American. Our
approaches to the subject of crime came from different perspectives
one as a researcher and the other as the founder of one of the
world's largest security services companies. We both wanted to
understand the causes of crime, and our discussions began a more
than 21-year friendship, based on mutual respect and shared values.
Dr. Wolfgang's scholarship aimed for the goal of promoting a safer,
more prosperous society, one in which economic opportunity replaced
criminal enterprise. He never saw crime in isolation but as part of
a complex web of social relations. Only by understanding the causes
and patterns of crime can society find ways to prevent it. Only
through scholarship can the criminal justice community influence
policy makers. To encourage the innovative scholarship that marked
Marvin's career, Guardsmark established the Lipman Criminology
Library at the University of Pennsylvania, at his request, and
created a national criminology award in his name, the Wolfgang
Award for Distinguished Achievement in Criminology."
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid
out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion
that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even
after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian
relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to
account for many of the phenomena of the observed world, and
Newtonian celestial dynamics is used to determine the orbits of our
space vehicles. This authoritative, modern translation by I.
Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, the first in more than 285 years,
is based on the 1726 edition, the final revised version approved by
Newton; it includes extracts from the earlier editions, corrects
errors found in earlier versions, and replaces archaic English with
contemporary prose and up-to-date mathematical forms. Newton's
principles describe acceleration, deceleration, and inertial
movement; fluid dynamics; and the motions of the earth, moon,
planets, and comets. A great work in itself, the Principia also
revolutionized the methods of scientific investigation. It set
forth the fundamental three laws of motion and the law of universal
gravity, the physical principles that account for the Copernican
system of the world as emended by Kepler, thus effectively ending
controversy concerning the Copernican planetary system. The
illuminating Guide to Newton's Principia by I. Bernard Cohen makes
this preeminent work truly accessible for today's scientists,
scholars, and students. Designed with collectors in mind, this
deluxe edition has faux leather binding covered with a beautiful
dustjacket.
Written by one of the world's leading political geographers, this
fully revised and updated textbook examines the dramatic changes
wrought by ideological, economic, socio-cultural and demographic
changes unleashed since the end of the Cold War. Saul Cohen
considers these forces in the context of their human and physical
settings, and explores their geographical influence on foreign
policy and international relations.
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid
out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion
that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even
after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian
relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to
account for many of the phenomena of the observed world, and
Newtonian celestial dynamics is used to determine the orbits of our
space vehicles. This authoritative, modern translation by I.
Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, the first in more than 285 years,
is based on the 1726 edition, the final revised version approved by
Newton; it includes extracts from the earlier editions, corrects
errors found in earlier versions, and replaces archaic English with
contemporary prose and up-to-date mathematical forms. Newton's
principles describe acceleration, deceleration, and inertial
movement; fluid dynamics; and the motions of the earth, moon,
planets, and comets. A great work in itself, the Principia also
revolutionized the methods of scientific investigation. It set
forth the fundamental three laws of motion and the law of universal
gravity, the physical principles that account for the Copernican
system of the world as emended by Kepler, thus effectively ending
controversy concerning the Copernican planetary system. The
illuminating Guide to Newton's Principia by I. Bernard Cohen makes
this pre-eminent work truly accessible for today's scientists,
scholars, and students. Designed with collectors in mind, this
beautiful and deluxe cloth edition will hold a place of honor on
any bookshelf.
The book is divided into nine parts Natural Philosophy, Scientific
Method, Experimental Procedure, Optics, Rational Mechanics, Systems
of the World, Alchemy and Theory of Matter, Theology, and
Mathematics. Text and commentary are woven together, enabling
readers to concentrate on the aspects of Newton's astoundingly
diverse career they prefer. For each part, the editors provide an
introductory essay and textual annotation. In addition, the text is
amply illustrated.
The General Introduction to the book sketches Newton's life and
offers an interpretation of his scientific achievements. The
Biographical Register identifies the many people Newton cites in
his writings. The Glossary and Glossary of Chemical Terms explicate
scientific terms and concepts. Finally, the Selected Bibliography
offers suggestions for further readings of and about Newton."
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid
out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion
that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even
after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian
relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to
account for many of the phenomena of the observed world, and
Newtonian celestial dynamics is used to determine the orbits of our
space vehicles. This authoritative, modern translation by I.
Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, the first in more than 285 years,
is based on the 1726 edition, the final revised version approved by
Newton; it includes extracts from the earlier editions, corrects
errors found in earlier versions, and replaces archaic English with
contemporary prose and up-to-date mathematical forms. Newton's
principles describe acceleration, deceleration, and inertial
movement; fluid dynamics; and the motions of the earth, moon,
planets, and comets. A great work in itself, the Principia also
revolutionized the methods of scientific investigation. It set
forth the fundamental three laws of motion and the law of universal
gravity, the physical principles that account for the Copernican
system of the world as emended by Kepler, thus effectively ending
controversy concerning the Copernican planetary system. The
translation - only edition of this preeminent work is truly
accessible for today's scientists, scholars, and students.
A Computer Perspective is an illustrated essay on the origins and
first lines of development of the computer. The complex network of
creative forces and social pressures that have produced the
computer is personified here in the creators of instruments of
computation, and their machines or tables; the inventors of
mathematical or logical concepts and their applications; and the
fabricators of practical devices to serve the immediate needs of
government, commerce, engineering, and science. The book is based
on an exhibition conceived and assembled for International Business
Machines (IBM) Corporation. Like the exhibition, it is not a
history in the narrow sense of a chronology of concepts and
devices. Yet these pages actually display more true history (in
relation to the computer) than many more conventional presentations
of the development of science and technology.
The earth circles the sun every year and rotates on its axis every twenty-four hours. The earth does not stand still These are notions so basic to our view of life that we take them for granted. But in the seventeenth century they were revolutionary, heretical, even dangerous to the men who formed them. Culture, religion, and science had intertwined over the centuries to create a world view based on a stationary earth. Indeed, if the earth moved, would not birds be blown off the trees and would not an object thrown straight up come down far away? Then came the Renaissance and with it Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Huygens, and Newton: giants who courageously remade the world into an earth which actually moves 100,000 feet a second while revolving 1,000 miles an hour around an object 93,000,000 miles away. And yet birds perch unruffled and an apple will fall straight down. All of this we think we know. But how well do we know it? In the twenty-five years since its first publication, The Birth of a New Physics has become a classic in the history of science. Here expanded by more than one-third and fully updated, it not only offers us the best account of the greatest scientific revolution but also tells us how we can know we live in a dynamic universe.
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Compendium Of Finance - Containing An Account Of The Origin, Progress, And Present State, Of The Public Debts, Revenue, Expenditure, National Banks And Currencies, Of France, Russia, Prussia, The Netherlands, Austria, Naples, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, (Hardcover)
Bernard Cohen
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Proceedings Of The American Antiquarian Society For April 1951.
Contributing Authors Include Henry Guerlac, Dorothy Wyckoff, John
J. Beer, And Many Others. Guide To The History Of Science.
Proceedings Of The American Antiquarian Society For April 1951.
Contributing Authors Include Alfred Romer, John C. Greene, Stillman
Drake And Many Others. Guide To The History Of Science.
Contributing Authors Include Robert S. Woodbury, Carl B. Boyer, C.
A. Patrides, Lynn Thorndike, Stillman Drake And Robert A. Chipman.
Guide To The History Of Science.
Contributing Authors Include Nathan Reingold, Edward Rosen, S.
Sambursky, Carl B. Boyer And Martin Levey. Guide To The History Of
Science.
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