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  • The Waters Above the Firmament
    Dino Boccaletti
    This book addresses an emblematic case of a potential faith-reason, or faith-science, conflict that never arose, even though the biblical passage in question runs counter to simple common sense. Within the context of Western culture, when one speaks of a faith-science conflict one is referring to cases in which a 'new' scientific theory or the results of empirical research call...
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    122,36 €

  • The Waters Above the Firmament
    Dino Boccaletti
    This book addresses an emblematic case of a potential faith-reason, or faith-science, conflict that never arose, even though the biblical passage in question runs counter to simple common sense. Within the context of Western culture, when one speaks of a faith-science conflict one is referring to cases in which a 'new' scientific theory or the results of empirical research call...
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    48,58 €

  • The Shape and Size of the Earth
    Dino Boccaletti
    This book describes in detail the various theories on the shape of the Earth from classical antiquity to the present day and examines how measurements of its form and dimensions have evolved throughout this period. The origins of the notion of the sphericity of the Earth are explained, dating back to Eratosthenes and beyond, and detailed attention is paid to the struggle to est...
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    148,29 €

  • Galileo and the Equations of Motion
    Dino Boccaletti
    This book is intended as a historical and critical study on the origin of the equations of motion as established in Newton’s Principia. The central question that it aims to answer is whether it is indeed correct to ascribe to Galileo the inertia principle and the law of falling bodies. In order to accomplish this task, the study begins by considering theories on the motion of b...
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    66,75 €

  • Geometry of Minkowski Space-Time
    Dino Boccaletti / Francesco Catoni / Roberto Cannata
    This book provides an original introduction to the geometry of Minkowski space-time. A hundred years after the space-time formulation of special relativity by Hermann Minkowski, it is shown that the kinematical consequences of special relativity are merely a manifestation of space-time geometry.The book is written with the intention of providing students (and teachers) of the f...
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    73,22 €

  • Theory of Orbits
    Dino Boccaletti / Giuseppe Pucacco
    Half a century ago, S. Chandrasekhar wrote these words in the preface to his 1 celebrated and successful book: In this monograph an attempt has been made to present the theory of stellar dy­ namics as a branch of classical dynamics - a discipline in the same general category as celestial mechanics. [ ... ] Indeed, several of the problems of modern ste...
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    145,79 €

  • Theory of Orbits
    Dino Boccaletti / Prof. Giuseppe Pucacco
    Half a century ago, S. Chandrasekhar wrote these words in the preface to his l celebrated and successful book: In this monograph an attempt has been made to present the theory of stellar dy­ namics as a branch of classical dynamics - a discipline in the same general category as celestial mechanics. [ ... J Indeed, several of the problems of modern ste...
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    145,63 €