Thomas E. Conlon

Broschiertes Buch

Thinking about Nothing

Otto von Guericke and the Magdeburg Experiments on the Vacuum

Beschreibung

Thinking about Nothing contains, in addition to a new translation from the Latin of Otto von Guericke's most important writings,an account of his life and a perspective on his thought. Amid the turmoil of the Thirty Years War and the pressures of life as politician and diplomat, he was a pioneer investigator of the nature of space and the atmosphere, and was, most famously, the inventor of the vacuum pump.

Autor

The book is at an elementary mathematical level. Its main aim is to deduce the basic facts about the orbits around the Sun of the Earth and the planets from data taken from a smartphone astronomy app.The book also gives many references to the history of astronomy from antiquity to the 17th century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781447839163
• ISBN-10: 1447839161
• Artikelnr.: 66731140