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Relativity of Motion: The Moving Ship Thought Experiment
(2015)
Galileo's "Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World," includes a discussion about dropping balls from the mast of both a moving ship and a ship at rest in order to test the theory of inertia. If sailors actually had ...
Practice Problems in Biomedical Organic Chemistry: Self-Guided Problems and Answers for Students in Bioorganic and Organic Chemistry, Volume I
(2016-08)
This problem set was developed to assist undergraduate students taking a one semester or two semester, non-majors course in organic chemistry. Students in these courses often come to organic chemistry from diverse backgrounds ...
Change, Challenge, and Creativity in the Workplace
(2017)
This book involves learning about oneself in order to be flexible and adaptable in a rapidly changing world. It contains worksheets for developing responses to challenging situations and it also contains a significant ...
Graduate Research and Writing Guide
(2016)
This book contains worksheets, guides, and tips for conducting literature reviews, planning and drafting articles and papers, revising your research papers, and making sure that everything is in the correct style (APA) and ...
The Trial of Galileo
(2017)
The story of Galileo’s trial in 1633 intertwines two crucial earlier episodes:
1. Galileo’s encounter with the Inquisition in 1616; and
2. Publication of Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World in ...
Johann Kepler: Blueprints of the Universe
(2015)
Johann Kepler's "Mystery of the Universe" is rightly considered one of the brilliant illustrations in the history of astronomy. In it, Kepler used the five regular Pythagorean solids to refute the major objections to ...
Discorso particolare intorno all'unisono
(2016)
Vincenzo Galilei was among the first music theorists to advocate for a new system of tuning based on performance, instead of the mathematical principles of music set fourth by Pythagoras. Pythagorean music theory bases ...
Boldly Explore: Camille Flammarion (1888)
(2015)
Science is a quest of discovery, the challenge of boldly exploring where no one has gone before. That is the appeal and rhetorically durable theme which has made this woodcut so appealing. Many have reprinted this illustration ...
Johan Schreck: Galileo's Friend in China
(2015)
Johann Schreck joined the Jesuit order in 1611, the same year that he used Galileo's telescope to observe the satellites of Jupiter. Upon becoming a Jesuit Schreck joined the Jesuit mission in China, taking with him a ...
Della Porta: Natural Magic
(2017)
Giambattista della Porta was one of the most widely known European Renaissance magicians. In 1558, at the age of twenty three, the first edition of his book Natural Magic was printed. Due to its popularity and Della Porta ...