Romance in Science: Lectures from a Course Called "Browse"Stratford Company, 1924 - 87 Seiten |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
algebra and geometry analytical geometry application assumption astronomy axis BESSIE IRVING MILLER circle clock co-ordinate commutative law concept convenient corresponds course curve Darwin definition describe distance earth moves earth's surface Einstein's theory equal equation essays Essential to argument ether Euclidean geometry exist experiment expressed fact fields four variables fourth dimension given Grammar of Science Gravitation Harvard Classics Henry Adams Human Significance Human Worth idea illustration incorrect infinite number interesting Kepler's Keyser knowledge light signal mathe mathematical theory mathematician Mathematics XVIII matical meditation ment metric motion with respect Newton Newtonian non-Euclidean geometry object observed one-dimensional physical phenomena pink series Poincaré point of view principle of relativity real number system reference Rigorous Thinking Rockford College scientific law scientific method semester sometimes special theory statement straight line theory of relativity thermometer scale thought three-dimensional space tion transformation true unit of measurement velocity Worth of Rigorous
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 18 - ... is directly proportional to the product of the masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
Seite 79 - And the proof that they do not is shown all the time in their lives. I say that if a man does not spend at least as much time in actively and definitely thinking about what he has read as he has spent in reading, he is simply insulting his author.
Seite 59 - It could be likened unto the confusion of tongues at the building of the Tower of Babel.
Seite 39 - The sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles...
Seite 11 - The force between two masses is proportional to the product of the two masses divided by the square of the distance between them.
Seite 73 - Transcending the flux of the sensuous universe, there exists a stable world of pure thought, a divinely ordered world of ideas, accessible to man, free from the mad dance of time, infinite and eternal.
Seite 60 - For the Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins.
Seite 18 - The ratio of the square of the period to the cube of the semimajor axis of the ellipse (to the cube of "the mean distance" from the sun) varies inversely as the sum of the masses of the sun and the planet.
Seite 49 - A point under no forces moves uniformly and rectilinearly', the Einstein Law, which comprises both inertial and gravitational effects, asserts: The world-line of a material point is a geodetic line in the space-time continuum.
Seite 2 - Jersey cow, hockdeep in the lush grass of a meadow where it slopes down toward a transparent stream tinkling over brown stones in the shadow of large weepingwillow trees? It is a Jersey cow which browses. A Jersey does not crop continuously, as do the startlingly black and white Holsteins in their short-grass pastures.