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Stephen Hawking: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

Autor: Kristine Larsen

The Astronomer Caroline Herschel: A Short Biography (30 Minute Book Series)

Autor: Doug West

Stories of Astronomers and Their Stars (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)

Autor: David E. Falkner

Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens

Autor: Kitty Ferguson

Planer 2024: Eleganter Jahresplaner mit Monats- und Wochenansicht mit täglichen To Do's zum abhaken, extra Seiten für Notizen - erfolgreich ins neue Jahr!

Autor: ErfolgReich Planen Vierundzwanzig

Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane

Autor: Seth Shulman

God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe

Amir D. Aczel

Great Astronomers

Robert Stawell Ball

Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century

J L E Dreyer

What Einstein Got Wrong

Dan Hooper, The Great Courses

These 12 half-hour lectures are about what Einstein got wrong. He may have kindled a scientific revolution with his famous theory of relativity and his proof that atoms and light quanta exist, but he balked at accepting the most startling implications of these theories - such as the existence of black holes, the big bang, gravity waves, and mind-bendingly strange phenomena in the quantum realm. In a course that assumes no background in science and uses very little math, research physicist Dan Hooper of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Chicago focuses on Einstein's personal qualities that made him a heavy hitter with relativity but also a strikeout king in many of his other ideas.

You start with two lectures on Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, and in a later lecture you cover his founding role in quantum theory. All are titanic achievements. The balance of the course deals with his false starts, blind alleys, and outright blunders, which are fascinating for what they reveal about the give-and-take conduct of science. For example, the possibility of black holes, which are infinitely dense concentrations of matter, emerged from the equations of general relativity. However, the idea seemed so absurd to Einstein that he believed something in nature must prevent black holes from forming. He was wrong. Similar considerations led him to doubt the existence of gravity waves, insist that the universe must be static and eternal, and hold out for a deterministic theory that would solve the weird paradoxes of quantum mechanics. Again, he was wrong. Dr. Hooper closes with a lecture on the missteps of other great physicists - Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton - proving that Einstein is in good company. Even geniuses struggle to find the truth.

P L E A S E N O T E: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Kepler and the Universe: How One Man Revolutionized Astronomy

David K. Love

The Man Who Ran the Moon: James Webb, JFK and the Secret History of Project Apollo

Piers Bizony

Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1610 LETTER TO THE GRAND DUCHESS CHRISTINA)

Galileo

Great Astronomers: James Bradley Illustrated

Robert Stawell Ball

The Man Who Painted the Universe: The Story of a Planetarium in the Heart of the North Woods

Ron Legro, Avi Lank

As a young boy Frank Kovac Jr. fell deeply in love with stargazing, painting glow-in-the-dark constellations on his bedroom wall and inviting friends to an observatory he built in his Chicago backyard. As he reached adulthood, Kovac did not let go of his childhood dreams of reaching the stars. He began scheming to bring the universe home. While working at a paper mill as a young man, Kovac tirelessly built a 22-foot rotating globe planetarium in the woods. Despite failures and collapses, the amateur astronomer singlehandedly built a North Woods treasure, painting more than 5, 000 glowing stars-dot by dot in glowing paints. Today, Kovac and his unique planetarium take visitors to the stars every day.

The Man Who Painted the Universe: The Story of a Planetarium in the Heart of the North Woods introduces listeners to the mild-mannered astronomy enthusiast whose creativity, ingenuity, fervor, and endurance realized a dream of galactic proportions. The story of this stargazer from Wisconsin's North Woods so inspired two newspapermen, authors Ron Legro and Avi Lank, that they sought to document the story of the Kovac Planetarium for a new generation of stargazers and dreamers.

The Life of Copernicus (1473-1543) by Pierre Gassendi (2002-10-01)

Pierre Gassendi;Oliver Thill