Relates man's search from the sixteenth century to the present for a physics to describe the dynamics of a universe in motion

The Birth of a New Physics (Penguin Science)

Science & Math

Cohen, I.Bernard

History & Philosophy

Penguin

Interactions: Some Contacts between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences

Interactions: Some Contacts Between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Mit Pr

Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (History of Computing)

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 historian of science who was also a colleague of Aiken's at Harvard, offers a clear and often entertaining introduction to Aiken and his times. Aiken's Mark I was the most intensely used of the early large-scale, general-purpose automatic digital computers, and it had a significant impact on the machines that followed. Aiken also proselytized for the computer among scientists, scholars, and businesspeople and explored novel applications in data processing, automatic billing, and production control. But his most lasting contribution may have been the students who received degrees under him and then took prominent positions in academia and industry. I. Bernard Cohen argues convincingly for Aiken's significance as a shaper of the computer world in which we now live.

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

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.

History

MIT Press]

Biography of Howard Aiken, a major figure of the early digital era, by a major historian of science who was also a colleague of Aiken's at Harvard.

Relates man's search from the sixteenth century to the present for a physics to describe the dynamics of a universe in motion

The Birth of a New Physics

Physics

W.W.Norton

The story of the scientific education of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison reveals that science was an integral part of their lives and shows how they used it to shape political issues of the day.

Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A history of numbers and statistics cites the origins of numerical analysis during the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, tracing how numbers have assumed a leading role in science, government, marketing, and other aspects of daily life. 10,000 first printing.

The Triumph Of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life

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 earth moved, would not birds be blown off the trees and would not an object thrown straight up come down far away? Then came the Renaissance and with it Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Huygens, and Newton: giants who courageously remade the world into an earth which actually moves 100,000 feet a second while revolving 1,000 miles an hour around an object 93,000,000 miles away. And yet birds perch unruffled and an apple will fall straight down. All of this we think we know. But how well do we know it? In the twenty-five years since its first publication, The Birth of a New Physics has become a classic in the history of science. Here expanded by more than one-third and fully updated, it not only offers us the best account of the greatest scientific revolution but also tells us how we can know we live in a dynamic universe.

W.W.Norton&Company

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 early America.
Thomas Jefferson was the only president who could read and understand Newton's Principia. Benjamin Franklin is credited with establishing the science of electricity. John Adams had the finest education in science that the new country could provide, including "Pnewmaticks, Hydrostaticks, Mechanicks, Staticks, Opticks." James Madison, chief architect of the Constitution, peppered his Federalist Papers with references to physics, chemistry, and the life sciences.
For these men science was an integral part of life―including political life. This is the story of their scientific education and of how they employed that knowledge in shaping the political issues of the day, incorporating scientific reasoning into the Constitution.

Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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The Birth of a New Physics (Penguin Science)

Interactions: Some Contacts Between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences

Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (History of Computing)

Interactions: Some Contacts between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences

Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (History of Computing)

The Birth of a New Physics

Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison

The Triumph Of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life

The Birth of a New Physics

Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison