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The Riddle Of The Self – Mikhailov
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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Tagged cognition, cognitive psychology, conciousness, hegel, I, individual, kant, kurshkaya, language, life, mind, mind-body problem, problem, psychology, russell, self, social, something
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Albert Einstein’s Philosophical views and the Theory of Relativity – Gribanov
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
Posted in books, philosophy, physics, progress publishers, science, soviet
Tagged analysis, classical mechanics, concepts, einstein, einstein studies, frames of reference, general relativity, genesis, history of science, matter, motion, philosophy, philosophy of science, physics, relativity, soviet science, space, special relativity, time
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Einstein and the philosophical problems of 20th-century physics
In this post, we will see the book Einstein and the philosophical problems of 20th-century physics. Many interesting articles are present in the book which would interest a physicist as well as students of history and philosophy of science. About the book: … Continue reading
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Tagged bohr, bridgman, cosmology, einstein, einstein studies, field theory, general relativity, geometry, gravitation, history of science, mach, philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, poincare, quantum mechanics, simultaneity, space, space-time, special relativity, theory of relativity, time
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Going To Kindergarten by Nadezhda Kalinina
In this post we will see a pretty illustrated book for children titled Going To Kindergarten by Nadezhda Kalinina. The book was translated from Russian to English by Fainna Solasko, and drawings were made by Veniamin Losin. The book was … Continue reading
Some recent discoveries
First of all thanks to Siddharth for his amazing and non-stop efforts in bringing out some many links to us. Perhaps we need to make a separate post for his books! From now on we will shift completely to The … Continue reading
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Tagged books, progress, soviet
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Pioneers of Space – Mitroshenkov
In this post we will see Pioneers of Space compiled by V. Mitroshenkov “PIONEERS OF SPACE” IS A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTARY ESSAYS WRITTEN BY. COSMONAUTS, SCIENTISTS AND JOURNALISTS ABOUT THE ORGANISATION OF THE SOVIET SPACE PROGRAMME. OFFERS INFORMATION ABOUT THE … Continue reading
Posted in Aerodynamics, books, engineering, progress publishers, science, soviet, technology
Tagged astronauts, cosmonauts, space, space ship, space travel, yuri gagarin
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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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Relativity and Man – V. Smilga
Our task is to comprehend the purely physical essence of the theory, without going into problems which cannot be explained here with sufficient clarity. After seeing three books (RTG and STG) on General Relativity (GR) and one Special Theory of … Continue reading
Posted in astronomy, books, physics, progress publishers, science, soviet
Tagged einstein, ether, galilean relativity, gravity, mass energy, mechanics, newton, paradoxes, simultaneity, space-time, special relativity
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Updates…
The link for All About The Telescope has been updated. This is a major revision from the earlier link, in terms of quality. The download size is about ~118 MB. Update 2: gnv64 has made a (much) smaller version of … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, children, telescope
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All About The Telescope
Surely, you’d like to know where the Earth ends, what surrounds the Earth, how far it is to the Moon and the stars, why the stars sparkle, why a ball you throw up always falls down, why it’s warmer in … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, children, moon, planets, popular science, progress publishers, science, seasons, soviet, sun
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