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World Scientific Publishing Company
Going Underground : The Science and History of Falling Through the Earth
Product Code:
9789813279032
ISBN13:
9789813279032
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$84.31
Going Underground : The Science and History of Falling Through the Earth
$84.31
Inhaltsverzeichnis: A long distraction -- Wishing well -- Cymro's problem -- The heat of ages -- Terricola's questions -- Flamsteed's well -- Airy underground -- A mind's eye view -- Tik-Tok's tumble -- Eratosthenes's well -- Aristotle's stop and the Merton calculators -- Galileo's constant cannonball -- Hooke's bullet and Newton's cannon -- Newton's canal -- Halley's hollow Earth -- Dr. Akakea's Diatribe and Euler's miracle -- Collignon's slant -- Fastest descent -- The kola pinprick and the iron blob -- A black hole falling -- The elephant in the room -- First and last thoughts.
| Author: Martin Beech |
| Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company |
| Publication Date: May 10, 2019 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 9813279036 |
| ISBN-13: 9789813279032 |
