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Robert P. Crease

The Great Equations

Robert P. Crease 2008 | Hillsboro 509 CREASE

Worthwhile book, not enough notes while reading. WCCLS also has three other books by Crease

  • 021 01 Pythagorean Theorem

  • 042 interlude Proofs

  • 046 02 Newton's Second Law of Motion

  • 065 interlude The Book of Nature

  • 069 03 Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation

  • 088 interlude That Apple

  • 091 04 Euler's Equation

  • 097 interlude Equations as Icons

  • 111 05 The Second Law of Thermodynamics

  • 128 interlude The Science of Impossibility

  • 132 06 Maxwell's Equations

  • 152 interlude Overcoming Anosognosia

  • 156 07 E=mc²

  • 180 interlude Crazy Ideas

  • 185 08 Einstein's Equation for General Relativity

  • 209 interlude Science Critics

  • 214 09 Schrödinger's Equation

  • 230 interlude The Double Consciousness of Scientists

  • 235 10 The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

  • 261 interlude The Yogi and the Quantum

  • 266 Bringing the Strange Home

The Prism and the Pendulum

The ten most beautiful experiments in science

Robert P. Crease 2003 | Tigard 509 CRE

  • 003 Measuring the World: Erasthene's Measurement of the Earth's Circumference
  • 021 Dropping the Ball: The Legend of the Leaning Tower
  • 043 The Alpha Experiment: Galileo and the Inclined Plane
  • 059 Experimentum Crucis: Newton's Decomposition of Sunlight with Prisms
  • 083 Weighing the World: Cavendish's Austere Experiment
  • 105 Light a Wave: Young's Lucid Analogy
  • 119 Science and Metaphor
    • Metaphors work in 3 ways:
      • illuminate aspects of primary subject, filter out the rest
      • creative, bring to bear an already-organized set of equations
      • recast overall view; Lewis Thomas: the earth not an organism, most like a single cell
        • Stephen Jay Gould replaying life's tape
  • 125 Seeing the Earth Rotate: Foucault's Sublime Pendulum
  • 145 Seeing the Electron: Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment

    • 150 formed cloud of oil drops, turned on power, cloud dissipated, except for a few drops, where charge*field ~= gravity*mass

    • 163 Interlude: Barbara McClintock chromosomes:

    • "I found that the more I worked with them, the bigger and bigger [the chromosomes] got, and when I was really working with them, I wasn't outside, I was down there. I was part of the system. I was right down there with them, and everything got bit. I even was able to see the internal parts of the chromosomes."

  • 169 Dawning Beauty: Rutherford's Discovery of the Atomic Nucleus
  • 191 The Only Mystery: The Quantum Interference of Single Electron

The Workshop and the World

What ten thinkers can teach us about science and authority

Robert P. Crease 2019 | Tigard 306.45 CRE

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