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Man and Animals – Dmitriyev
In this post we will see Man and Animals by Yuri Dmitriyev. Man’s life on Earth is bound up fast with animals, birds, and fish t insects and beasts, octopi and worms. But over the millennia Man’s relationships with animals … Continue reading
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Tagged animal gods, animals, birds, cryptozoology, darwin, environment, fish, humans, insects, mammals, man, nature, protection, zoology
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Something Called Nothing – Podolny
The present book relates the history of views, the development of ideas, often ones that are still in the making. In this post we will see a book about nothing! The curios title of the book is Something Called Nothing … Continue reading
Posted in astronomy, books, history, mathematics, mir books, mir publishers, physics, science, soviet
Tagged dirac sea, elementary particles, ether, fields, history of science, mir publishers, neutrino, physics, planck length, popular science, quantum mecha, vacuum, void
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In the Search for Beauty – Smilga
In an earlier post we have seen a wonderful book on special relativity titled Relativity and Man by V. Smilga. In that post, it was pointed out another book by this wonderful author titled In theSearch for Beauty, which has … Continue reading
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Tagged bolyai, einstein, euclid, gauss, general relativity, geometry, history of mathematics, lobachevskian, lobachevsky, mathematics, non euclidean geometry
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The Riddles of Three Oceans – Kondratov
We now come to a book titled The Riddles of Three Oceans by Alexander Kondratov. As the title suggests the book is about mysteries which are scattered throughout the three major oceans, namely, Atlantic, Pacific and the Indian. In this … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, archaelogy, atlantis, civilizations, easter, islands, liguistics, mysteries, oceans
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Matter and Man – Vasilyev, Stanyukovich
We come to a book by M. Vasilyev, K. Stanyukovich titled Matter and Man. The book talks about the various aspects of matter and how man (humans!) has come to control them and use them. The book thematically explores solids, … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmic clouds, explosion, fields, jets, plasma, universe, vacuum
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Probabilities of the Quantum World – Daniel Danin
What can take place of a particular interpretation? Only another interpretation – nothing else. We now come to Daniel Danin‘s book titled Probabilities of the Quantum World. The book traces the history of ideas in the conceptual development of Quantum … Continue reading
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Tagged bohr, born, de Broglie, einstein, heisenberg, ideas, interpretation, kuhn, planck, quantum mechanics, rutherford, schroedinger, solvay congress, sommerfield
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