Unifying Scientific Theories
Subtitle: Physical Concepts and Mathematical Structures
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521652162
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; History of science; Philosophy of science; Waves & Wave Mechanics; Nuclear Physics; Science; Philosophy; Science/Mathematics; General; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Philosophy / General; Unified field theories
First sentence: In the Mysterium cosmographicum Johannes Kepler claimed that it was his intention to show that the celestial "machine" was not a kind of divine living being, but a kind of clockwork insofar as the multiplicity of motions depends on a single, quite simple magnetic and corporeal force, just as all the motions of a clock depend upon a simple weight.