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Clocks and Watches – Dlugolensky

Posted on April 25, 2018

In this post, we will see the book Clocks and Watches by Yakov Dlugolensky. The book as the title suggests is about clocks and watches and time. We explore the variety of clocks and stories behind them. The book is amazingly … Continue reading →

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A Simple Non-Euclidean Geometry And Its Physical Basis – Yaglom

Posted on April 24, 2018

In this post, we will see the book A simple non-Euclidean geometry and its physical basis: an elementary account of Galilean geometry and the Galilean principle of relativity by I. M. Yaglom. This book is remarkable in that it relies only on … Continue reading →

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Plasma Physics – Kadomtsev (Ed.)

Posted on April 22, 2018

In this post, we will see the book Plasma Physics edited by B. B. Kadomtsev. About the book This collection contains articles both original and already published in the Soviet Union in 1979-80, written by well-known Soviet scientists and devoted … Continue reading →

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The Earth in the Universe – Fedynskii (Ed.)

Posted on April 22, 2018

In this post, we will see the book The Earth In The Universe edited by V. V. Fedynskii. About the book: The space age was initiated on 4 October 1957, when the first Soviet artificial satellite was launched. Then, between 1961 and … Continue reading →

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Fundamentals of Physics – Ivanov

Posted on April 21, 2018

In this post, we will see the book Fundamentals of Physics by B. N. Ivanov. About the book: The book being of­fered by the author differs from other existing books on the subject in its nontraditional approach to the course of phys­ics. … Continue reading →

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The Riddle Of The Self – Mikhailov

Posted on April 21, 2018

In this post, we will see the book The Riddle Of The Self by F. T. Mikhailov. About the book: The question of consciousness, of its relation to being cannot in principle be reduced to a particular scientific problem of the … Continue reading →

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Albert Einstein’s Philosophical views and the Theory of Relativity – Gribanov

Posted on April 21, 2018

In this post, we will see the book Albert Einstein’s Philosophical Views and the Theory of Relativity by D. P. Gribanov. This book aims to bring out the place and role of philo­sophical science in the creation of the theory … Continue reading →

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