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  | | The Birth of a New Physics(Updated) (Revised and ) by I. Bernard Cohen, Henry Cohen Paperback, 258 Pages, Published 1985 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30045-1, ISBN: 0-393-30045-5 "The earth circles the sun every year and rotates on its axis every twenty-four hours. The earth does not stand still. These are notions so basic to our view of life that we take them for granted. But in the seventeenth century they were revolutionary, heretical, even dangerous to the men who formed them. Culture, religion, and science had intertwined over the centuries to create a world view based on a stationary earth. Indeed, if the e ..." |
 | | The Triumph of Numbers(Reprint) How Counting Shaped Modern Life by I. Bernard Cohen, Ib Cohen Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32870-7, ISBN: 0-393-32870-8 "From the pyramids to mortality tables, Galileo to Florence Nightingale, a vibrant history of numbers and the birth of statistics. The great historian of science I. B. Cohen explores how numbers have come to assume a leading role in science, in the operations and structure of government, in marketing, and in many other aspects of daily life. Consulting and collecting numbers has been a feature of human affairs since antiquity? taxes, hea ..." |
 | | The Triumph of Numbers(1st Edition) How Counting Shaped Modern Life by I. Bernard Cohen Hardcover, 209 Pages, Published 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05769-0, ISBN: 0-393-05769-0 "Consulting and collecting numbers has been a feature of human affairs since antiquity-from the pyramids to tax collection to head counts for military service-but not until the Scientific Revolution in the seventeenth century did social numbers such as births, deaths and marriages begin to be analysed. The Triumph of Numbers explores how numbers have come to assume a leading role in science, in the operations and structure of government, ..." |
 | | The Birth of a New Physics(Updated) by I. Bernard Cohen, Ib Cohen Hardcover, 258 Pages, Published 1985 by W. W. Norton ISBN-13: 978-0-393-01994-0, ISBN: 0-393-01994-2 "In symbolic terms, what Galileo did was to deduce B from A; he next tested B, and then concluded that A holds. It should be noted, however, that this method does not include a guarantee of A. For instance, it might happen that B could also be ..." |
 | | Revolution in Science(Updated) by Ierome Bernard . Cohen, Ci Cohen, I. Bernard Cohan, J. Bernard Cohen Paperback, 732 Pages, Published 1987 by Belknap Press: An Imprint Of Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-76778-2, ISBN: 0-674-76778-0 " Only a scholar as rich in learning as I. Bernard Cohen could do justice to a theme so subtle and yet so grand. Spanning five centuries and virtually all of scientific endeavor, Revolution in Science traces the nuances that differentiate both scientific revolutions and human perceptions of them, weaving threads of detail from physics, mathematics, behaviorism, Freud, atomic physics, and even plate tectonics and molecular biology, into t ..." |
 | | Newton(1st Edition) by Sir Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen, Richard S. Westfall, Richard Samuel Westfall Paperback, 434 Pages, Published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-95902-4, ISBN: 0-393-95902-3 "At last—an illuminating and accessible edition of Isaac Newton's writings, intended for nonspecialist readers. I. Bernard Cohen and Richard S. Westfall have meticulously collected representative works from every major aspect of Newton's intellectual life.The book is divided into nine parts—Natural Philosophy, Scientific Method, Experimental Procedure, Optics, Rational Mechanics, Systems of the World, Alchemy and Theory of Matter, The ..." |
 | | Album of Science From Leonardo to Lavoisier, 1450-1800 by I. Bernard Cohen Hardcover, 323 Pages, Published 1980 by Charles Scribner's Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-684-15377-3, ISBN: 0-684-15377-7 "See cross-staff James II, 91 Japan Leyden jar experiment, 172 Jardin Royal des Plantes. ... 223 sextant, 226 Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, 139- 140, 182, 342,347 Acad^mie des Sciences, 196 apparatus, 195 arrest and trial, 253 ... Jean, 39 Leibniz, G. W. von, 76-77, 107, 109, 110 Le Monnier, Louis-Guillaume, 130 lenses Acaddmie des Sciences, 195 achromatic, ... Academy (Academy of the Lynxes), 60, 249, 318 Linnaeus, Carolus, 239 class ..." |
 | | Science and the Founding Fathers(1st Edition) Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison by I. Bernard Cohen Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1997 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31510-3, ISBN: 0-393-31510-X "General readers, students of American history, and professional historians alike will profit from reading this engaging presentation of an aspect of American history conspicuously absent from the usual textbooks and popular presentations of the political thought of this crucial period. Thomas Jefferson was the only president who could read and understand Newton's Principia. Benjamin Franklin is credited with establishing the science of ..." |
 | | Benjamin Franklin's Science(1st Edition) by I. Bernard Cohen Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1996 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-06659-5, ISBN: 0-674-06659-6 "Benjamin Franklin is well known to most of us, yet his fundamental and wide-ranging contributions to science are still not adequately understood. Until now he has usually been incorrectly regarded as a practical inventor and tinkerer rather than a scientific thinker. He was elected to membership in the elite Royal Society because his experiments and original theory of electricity had made a science of that new subject. His popular fame ..." |
 | | The Principia(1st Edition) The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton, Anne Whitman, I. Bernard Cohen, Julia Budenz Paperback, 616 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-29074-7, ISBN: 0-520-29074-7 "In his monumental 1687 work, "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica," known familiarly as the"Principia," Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to account for many of the phenomena of the ob ..." |
 | | The Principia The Authoritative Translation and Guide: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton, Julia Budenz, Anne Whitman, I. Bernard Cohen Hardcover, 992 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-29087-7, ISBN: 0-520-29087-9 "In his monumental 1687 work, "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica," known familiarly as the"Principia," Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to account for many of the phenomena of the ob ..." |
 | | The Principia(1st Edition) The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton, Anne Whitman, Julia Budenz, I. Bernard Cohen Hardcover, 616 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-29073-0, ISBN: 0-520-29073-9 "In his monumental 1687 work, "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica," known familiarly as the"Principia," Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to account for many of the phenomena of the ob ..." |
 | | The Principia The Authoritative Translation and Guide: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton, Anne Whitman, I. Bernard Cohen, Julia Budenz Paperback, 992 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-29088-4, ISBN: 0-520-29088-7 "In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to account for many of the phenomena of the obser ..." |
 | | Interactions Some Contacts between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences by I. Bernard Cohen Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 1994 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53124-5, ISBN: 0-262-53124-0 "One of the fruits of the Scientific Revolution was the idea of a social science that would operate in ways comparable to the newly triumphant natural sciences. Thus was set in motion a long and often convoluted chain of two-way interactions that still have implications for both scholarship and public policy. This book, by the dean of American historians of science, offers an excellent historical perspective on these interactions.One of ..." |
 | | Howard Aiken(Updated) Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (History of Computing) by I. Bernard Cohen, Ib Cohen, William Aspray, Thomas J. Misa Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2000 by Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53179-5, ISBN: 0-262-53179-8 "Great controversies never die. The brouhaha surrounding the unveiling of the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (or Harvard Mark I), the first general-purpose automatic computer, is a perfect example: Who invented it, IBM engineers or Harvard applied mathematician Howard Aiken? Science historian I. Bernard Cohen knew Aiken and tells the whole story in Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer, both an engaging life story of ..." |
 | | Howard Aiken Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (History of Computing) by I. Bernard Cohen Hardcover, 412 Pages, Published 1999 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-03262-9, ISBN: 0-262-03262-7 "Howard Hathaway Aiken (1900-1973) was a major figure of the early digital era. He is best known for his first machine, the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator or Harvard Mark I, conceived in 1937 and put into operation in 1944. But he also made significant contributions to the development of applications for the new machines and to the creation of a university curriculum for computer science.This biography of Aiken, by a major ..." |
 | | Benjamin Franklin's Science(1st Edition) by I. Bernard Cohen, David Armine Howarth Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1990 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-06658-8, ISBN: 0-674-06658-8 " Benjamin Franklin is well known to most of us, yet his fundamental and wide--ranging contributions to science are still not adequately understood. Until now he has usually been incorrectly regarded as a practical inventor and tinkerer rather than a scientific thinker. He was elected to membership in the elite Royal Society because his experiments and original theory of electricity had made a science of that new subject. His popular lam ..." |
 | | The Birth of a New Physics(2nd Edition) (Penguin Science) by I. Bernard Cohen Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1987 by Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-14-022694-2, ISBN: 0-14-022694-X |
 | | Revolution in Science(1st Edition) by I. Bernard Cohen, Ci Cohen Hardcover, 704 Pages, Published 1985 by Belknap Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-76777-5, ISBN: 0-674-76777-2 " Only a scholar as rich in learning as I. Bernard Cohen could do justice to a theme so subtle and yet so grand. Spanning five centuries and virtually all of scientific endeavor, Revolution in Science traces the nuances that differentiate both scientific revolutions and human perceptions of them, weaving threads of detail from physics, mathematics, behaviorism, Freud, atomic physics, and even plate tectonics and molecular biology, into t ..." |
 | | The Newtonian Revolution(Updated) With Illustrations of the Transformation of Scientific Ideas (The Wiles Lectures) by I. Bernard Cohen Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 1983 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-27380-0, ISBN: 0-521-27380-3 "This volume presents Professor Cohen's original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science and set Newtonian science as the model for the highest level of achievement in other branches of science. It shows that Newton developed a special kind of relation between abstract mathematical constructs and the physical systems that we observe in the world around us by means of experiment and critical observati ..." |
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