Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780521650649
Subjects: History of mathematics; History of science; Philosophy of science; Popular science; Science; Science/Mathematics; General; Physics--History; Science / Gravity; Physics; History
First sentence: In the summer of 1609, Galileo Galilei, professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, began constructing telescopes and using them to look at the Moon and stars.