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= Robert P. Crease =
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== The Great Equations ==
=== Robert P. Crease 2008 | Hillsboro 509 CREASE ===

Worthwhile book, not enough notes while reading. WCCLS also has [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&type=Advanced&term=Robert%20P.%20Crease&relation=ALL&by=AU&bool4=AND&limit=TOM=bks%20not%20tom=ebk&sort=RELEVANCE&page=0&searchid=3 | 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: [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=1&cn=3017209 | 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) [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banville | John Banville ]] complains about big words in [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McEwan | Ian McEwan's ]] novel [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_(novel) | Saturday ]]
  .154 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anosognosia | 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'''

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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

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== 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
  
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