The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern CosmologyClarendon Press, 1965 - 436 síður |
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... geometry . Those who tried to give a demonstration of the proposition , especially during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , achieved not this , but something of even greater importance.23 They found that the postulate could be ...
... geometry . Those who tried to give a demonstration of the proposition , especially during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , achieved not this , but something of even greater importance.23 They found that the postulate could be ...
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... geometry ' . Since long before Euclid , geometry texts have concentrated on the purely deductive aspects of the subject , and this has tended to obscure the fact that it has been used and often understood as a scientific theory , albeit ...
... geometry ' . Since long before Euclid , geometry texts have concentrated on the purely deductive aspects of the subject , and this has tended to obscure the fact that it has been used and often understood as a scientific theory , albeit ...
Síða 279
... geometry is , even in part , an experimental science ' , he is thinking of pure geometry . In fact his entire work is most readily understood if the word ' geometry ' is always taken in this sense when it stands alone . When he speaks ...
... geometry is , even in part , an experimental science ' , he is thinking of pure geometry . In fact his entire work is most readily understood if the word ' geometry ' is always taken in this sense when it stands alone . When he speaks ...
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COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH | 16 |
FIELD THEORIES AND THE WISH TO | 24 |
The Le SageThomson explanation of gravitation | 38 |
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The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern Cosmology John David North Engin sýnishorn í boði - 1965 |
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