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Beyond Einstein [E-Book] : Perspectives on Geometry, Gravitation, and Cosmology in the Twentieth Century /
Table of Contents: ... -- Relativistic Lighthouses: The Role of the Binary Pulsar in Proving the Existence of Gravitational Waves -- The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force -- Part III Geometry and Cosmology, Past and Present -- Cyclic Models of the Relativistic Universe: The Early History...

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Galileo Galilei [E-Book] : At the Threshold of the Scientific Age /
Table of Contents: ...Introduction -- Time and Space -- Early Years (1564-1588) -- Padova -- Florence -- Cosmological Excursion -- Florence revisited -- Final Years -- Conclusions. ....

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The Vatican Observatory, Castel Gandolfo: 80th Anniversary Celebration [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ...) The Stellar Haloes of Galaxies (Richard De Souza).- Cosmology.- 9) A String Theory Based f(R)-Gravity with Duality Transformations (Gabriele Gionti) -- 10) Creation of Matter in a Noncommutativ e Universe (Michael Heller) -- 11) Testing new physics with polarized...

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Wandering Towards a Goal [E-Book] : How Can Mindless Mathematical Laws Give Rise to Aims and Intention? /
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Trick or Truth? [E-Book] : The Mysterious Connection Between Physics and Mathematics /
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A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts [E-Book] : Volume I: The Heavens and The Earth /
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Why More Is Different [E-Book] : Philosophical Issues in Condensed Matter Physics and Complex Systems /
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Making the new world their own : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery [E-Book] /
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The Weight of the Vacuum [E-Book] : A Scientific History of Dark Energy /
Table of Contents: ...Early ideas of space and vacuum -- The active ether -- Planck's second quantum theory -- Half-quanta and zero-point energy -- Nernst's cosmic quantum ether -- The Hamburg connection -- The cosmological constant -- From Casimir to Zel'dovich -- Inflation...

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Essays on the Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics and Cosmology [E-Book] /
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Intelligible design : a realistic approach to the philosophy and history of science [E-Book] /
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Ultimate Horizons [E-Book] : Probing the Limits of the Universe /
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Rational Reconstructions of Modern Physics [E-Book] /
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Harmony of the sphere [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ...part I. Kant and Herschel on the universe -- part II. Philosophical foundations of Kant's cosmology -- part III. Kant and Herschel in context....

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The Arrows of Time [E-Book] : A Debate in Cosmology /
Table of Contents: ...Introduction -- The Clock Ambiguity: Implications and New Developments -- Holographic Cosmology and the Arrow of Time -- A "Momentous" Arrow of Time -- The Phantom Bounce: A New Proposal for an Oscillating Cosmology -- The Emergent Nature of Time...

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The crafting of the 10,000 things : knowledge and technology in seventeenth-century China [E-Book] /
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Copernicus and the Aristotelian tradition : education, reading, and philosophy in Copernicus's path to heliocentrism [E-Book] /
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The Gaither's dictionary of scientific quotations : a collection of quotations pertaining to archaeology, architecture, astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, cosmology, Darwinism, death, engineering, geology, life, mathematics, medicine, nature, nursing, paleontology, philosophy, physics, probability, science, statistics, technology, theory, universe, and zoology [E-Book] /
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New theories of everything : the quest for ultimate explanation [E-Book] /
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The connectivity hypothesis : foundations of an integral science of quantum, cosmos, life, and consciousness [E-Book] /