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01-26-2010, 12:12 PM | #47 |
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01-29-2010, 04:40 PM | #48 |
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So, as a change of pace from my usual bio/paleo mentions, I just finished reading a great astronomy book, The Hunt for Planet X, and was about to recommend it. I started looking for the ebook pricing, and found myself in the depths of insanity of Lovecraftian proportions-- the only (legit) electronic version I can find costs $25-- per section. So a full copy of the book would cost you $250.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-77804-4 so if you want it you are stuck with the print copy http://www.amazon.com/Hunt-Planet-Wo...dp/0387778047/ or getting it by other means (cough, cough). It is a very nice historical book starting from the discovery of Uranus, going to the Brown/Oritz kerfuffle and the disemplanetizing of Pluto, and summing up with mention of a few future/current projects for finding outer solar system objects. It is really too bad that on the ebook front the publishers can't discover Theiranus with both hands and a flashlight. |
01-29-2010, 05:05 PM | #49 | |
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01-29-2010, 05:16 PM | #50 |
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I’m currently reading The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan, edited and with an Introduction by Ann Druyan.
From Scientific American: Sagan, writing from beyond the grave (actually his new book, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, is an edited version of his 1985 Gifford Lectures), asks why, if God created the universe, he left the evidence so scant. He might have embedded Maxwell’s equations in Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Ten Commandments might have been engraved on the moon. "Or why not a hundred- kilometer crucifix in Earth orbit?… Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world?" He laments what he calls a "retreat from Copernicus," a loss of nerve, an emotional regression to the idea that humanity must occupy center stage. Both Gingerich and Collins, along with most every reconciler of science and religion, invoke the anthropic principle: that the values of certain physical constants such as the charge of the electron appear to be "fine-tuned" to produce a universe hospitable to the rise of conscious, worshipful life. But the universe is not all that hospitable-try leaving Earth without a space suit. Life took billions of years to take root on this planet, and it is an open question whether it made it anywhere else. To us carboniferous creatures, the dials may seem miraculously tweaked, but different physical laws might have led to universes harboring equally awe-filled forms of energy, cooking up anthropic arguments of their own. George Johnson is author of Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order and six other books. He resides on the Web at talaya.net |
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01-29-2010, 05:35 PM | #51 | |
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The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan.
I think everyone should have to read this book. By that I mean everyone on the planet should be forced to read this book. If only there were ebook editions of this book... |
01-30-2010, 05:45 PM | #53 |
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That is a good one!
I just ordered a used P-book copy of it. Here's a you-tube: Last edited by kennyc; 01-30-2010 at 06:29 PM. |
01-30-2010, 06:18 PM | #54 | |
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I've read and enjoyed Greene, Sagan and Bryson but have not read anything by Tyson or Kaku, I'll look them up.
I'd add: Infinite in all Directions - Freeman Dyson The Red Limit and The Whole Shebang - both by Timothy Ferris The Trouble with Physics - Lee Smolin Also, alee found a free ebook from NASA here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71900 It's about the X-15 - looks interesting |
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01-31-2010, 11:34 AM | #58 |
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Anybody got any recommendations for an e-book title on the history of Chemistry? I'm watching the series Chemistry: A Volatile History on BBC Four and it's great.
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01-31-2010, 11:50 AM | #59 |
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I'm sorry I don't have a good reply for you. Unfortunately, J. R. R. Partington's A Short History of Chemistry is not available as an ebook (nor is his definitive multivolume set). The paperback is widely available used. It is accurate and thorough but if you were looking for flair or something about the curious characters of the scientists involved, you should probably look elsewhere.
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01-31-2010, 01:12 PM | #60 | |
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I don't know of any specifically chemistry based but there are lots of good broad histories of science. Two I'd recommend are: Science: A History: 1534-2001 by John Gribbin and Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes both of which are fascinating for different reasons. Gribbins book is probably more a straight history with more of the chemistry talked about in that series. Both are published as ebooks in various places. |
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