Hello estimated SETI@home crunchers and visitors!

I have started this academic year with a new subject to study in order to complete my credits. This subject represents 6 credits and the examinations will take place in June 2009. Since Science is not the main issue in a Hospitality degree, I was wondering whether you could help me by addressing me some useful links, bibliography and basic ideas/theories which turned out to be decisive in History of Physics:

• Subject 1--->Introduction
  
• Subject 2--->Origins of scientific cosmology
  
• Subject 3--->Establishing modern science
  
• Subject 4--->Physics in the XVIII century
  
• Subject 5--->Physics of the XIX century
  
• Subject 6--->Contemporary Physics
  

This will be my effort and personal support to the Year of Physics 2009.
Let´s all take part and be part of it.
Any suggestions will be welcome.
Thanks

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Hello estimated SETI@home crunchers and visitors!

I have started this academic year with a new subject to study in order to complete my credits. This subject represents 6 credits and the examinations will take place in June 2009. Since Science is not the main issue in a Hospitality degree, I was wondering whether you could help me by addressing me some useful links, bibliography and basic ideas/theories which turned out to be decisive in History of Physics:

• Subject 1--->Introduction
  
• Subject 2--->Origins of scientific cosmology
  
• Subject 3--->Establishing modern science
  
• Subject 4--->Physics in the XVIII century
  
• Subject 5--->Physics of the XIX century
  
• Subject 6--->Contemporary Physics
  

This will be my effort and personal support to the Year of Physics 2009.
Let´s all take part and be part of it.
Any suggestions will be welcome.
Thanks

While at Mondadori Publishing House I have edited and published a book by prof.Emilio Segre', a coworker of Fermi and a Nobel prize winner. Its Italian title was "Personaggi e scoperte nella fisica contemporanea" and covered the period from 1895 to 1975. I don't know if there is an English edition or in other languages. But searching in the Library of the American Institute of Physics you'll find what you are searching for. I also recommend "Einstein", by Abraham Pais. Also "Albert Einstein, creator and rebel" by Banesh Hoffman and Helen Dukas. And, on a more popular level, "Biography of physics", by George Gamow.
Tullio
Also, among the thousand books written on Galileo, I recommend "Galileo eretico", by Pietro Redondi, Einaudi, Torino (1983). I forgot maybe the most important: "The structure of scientific revolutions", by Thomas Kuhn.

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Hello estimated SETI@home crunchers and visitors!...

Do you not mean "esteemed"?

Then again, I estimate most of the time... (And emanate and worse...)

Then again again, the only Russian I can speak is vodka ;-p


Take a look at: History of physics

Also note the influence from astronomy... See: History of astronomy


Hope that helps.

Good luck,
Martin

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Hello estimated SETI@home crunchers and visitors!

I have started this academic year with a new subject to study in order to complete my credits. This subject represents 6 credits and the examinations will take place in June 2009. Since Science is not the main issue in a Hospitality degree, I was wondering whether you could help me by addressing me some useful links, bibliography and basic ideas/theories which turned out to be decisive in History of Physics:

• Subject 1--->Introduction
  
• Subject 2--->Origins of scientific cosmology
  
• Subject 3--->Establishing modern science
  
• Subject 4--->Physics in the XVIII century
  
• Subject 5--->Physics of the XIX century
  
• Subject 6--->Contemporary Physics
  

This will be my effort and personal support to the Year of Physics 2009.
Let´s all take part and be part of it.
Any suggestions will be welcome.
Thanks

While at Mondadori Publishing House I have edited and published a book by prof.Emilio Segre', a coworker of Fermi and a Nobel prize winner. Its Italian title was "Personaggi e scoperte nella fisica contemporanea" and covered the period from 1895 to 1975. I don't know if there is an English edition or in other languages. But searching in the Library of the American Institute of Physics you'll find what you are searching for. I also recommend "Einstein", by Abraham Pais. Also "Albert Einstein, creator and rebel" by Banesh Hoffman and Helen Dukas. And, on a more popular level, "Biography of physics", by George Gamow.
Tullio
Also, among the thousand books written on Galileo, I recommend "Galileo eretico", by Pietro Redondi, Einaudi, Torino (1983). I forgot maybe the most important: "The structure of scientific revolutions", by Thomas Kuhn.

Hi tullio.....I phoned right away today to the American Institute of Physics and it seems to me a very fine/good library for visiting in person, but not for online research: you can check the catalog but not read the books [ebooks is what I am interested on].My budget for new books this year is significantly small!!
But it seems a good starting point and a valuable reference though. I will return for another e-visit in the future. In fact, it has given me an idea: it would be great to visit Washington D.C. and neighborhood, because of those splendid cultural offers and museums....
Albert Einstein shines so brightly in the XX century that some other scientists are frequently forgotten, like George Gamow. All of them play a significant role in the structure/theory of the universe as we know it today.
Galileo is a "milestone" and impossible not to stop by for a long time.
Step by step we create the path....

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Hello estimated SETI@home crunchers and visitors!...

Do you not mean "esteemed"?

Then again, I estimate most of the time... (And emanate and worse...)

Then again again, the only Russian I can speak is vodka ;-p


Take a look at: History of physics

Also note the influence from astronomy... See: History of astronomy


Hope that helps.

Good luck,
Martin

Yes, you are right!!!!
This is a typical example and known as "false friend" in the interpreters/translation faculties/colleges circles......The tendency to use similar words just because they sound the same. Sometimes it is a big mistake.
It is the nightmare of an interpreter student during examinations!!!
All of the above listed links will be checked, Martin.
¡Muchas gracias!!!

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"All I did was to study the history of science" was said by Albert Einstein. When studying physics at Trieste University all my teachers considered it a moot subject. One had to look forward and not backward, they thought. They were wrong. Later in Milano, while working at Mondadori I came to know professor Ludovico Geymonat, an historian of science, and worked under his scientific direction on a biographical dictionary of scientists from ancient times to the seventies. I even wrote an outline of a history of astronomy from 1875 to 1975. When a professional astronomer, Paolo Maffei, read the proofs he said that mine was astronomy seen by a physicist but he did not made any correction so it was printed. I also worked on a paper "Current trends in basic research", written in English under contract with UNESCO. I wrote the physics and astronomy parts. No computers in the Seventies, only typewriters, no WEB and no Wiki, One had to search in books and printed articles. Times have changed.
Tullio

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Today, looking for e-books related to Physics I found this---->Biblioteca Nacional de España
I am getting closer!!!
In case you are really interested on this book, I would suggest the most recent edition of 1842, because it is more similar to actual/contemporary spanish style.
The first version, the original one, saw the light in 1605, during the so called Siglo de Oro (the golden century) of spanish literature.

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Today, looking for e-books related to Physics I found this---->Biblioteca Nacional de España
I am getting closer!!!
In case you are really interested on this book, I would suggest the most recent edition of 1842, because it is more similar to actual/contemporary spanish style.
The first version, the original one, saw the light in 1605, during the so called Siglo de Oro (the golden century) of spanish literature.

If you go to Cafe SETI, Today's birthday, you will see that I had to correct the date of the birth of Francisco de Quevedo from 1850 to the real 1580. It was only a permutation, of course. Having studied Spanish when I was in America, many years ago, I like to read Federico Garcia Lorca but also Ruben Dario. XX century Spanish poetry is second only to T,S.Eliot's "Quartets".
Tullio

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