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----- == 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 === . Francis Bacon . Galileo Galilei . Rene Descartes . Giambattista Vico . Mary Shelley . August Comte . Max Weber . Kemal Ataturk . Edmund Husserl . Hannah Arendt . [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=3&cn=4085853 | Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) ]] battered by critics, responded with [[ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/02/25/truth-and-politics | Truth in Politics ]] essay . [[ https://idanlandau.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/arendt-truth-and-politics.pdf | transcribed text ]] . ''No one has ever doubted that truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other'' . [[ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/11/18/lying-in-politics-reflections-on-the-pentagon-pape/ | Lying in Politics: Reflections on The Pentagon Papers ]] . [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=7&cn=1834313 | Crises of the Republic 1972 ]] 323 ARE Beaverton Library ----- |
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
film: The Glass Bottom Boat
111 05 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
128 interlude The Science of Impossibility
132 06 Maxwell's Equations
152 interlude Overcoming Anosognosia
154 (Irish novelist) John Banville complains about big words in Ian McEwan's novel Saturday
154 anosognosia cognitively unaware of a disability
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
- Metaphors work in 3 ways:
- 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
- Francis Bacon
- Galileo Galilei
- Rene Descartes
- Giambattista Vico
- Mary Shelley
- August Comte
- Max Weber
- Kemal Ataturk
- Edmund Husserl
- Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) battered by critics, responded with Truth in Politics essay
No one has ever doubted that truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other
Crises of the Republic 1972 323 ARE Beaverton Library