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Creative Understanding

By: Roberto Torretti

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A pleasure to read. Gracefully written by a scholar well grounded in the relevant philosophical, historical, and technical background. . . . a helpfully clarifying review and analysis of some issues of importance to recent philosophy of science and a source of some illuminating insights."—Burke Townsend, Philosophy of Science

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0226807827

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Creative Understanding

By: Roberto Torretti

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Relativity and Geometry

Foundations and Philosophy of Science and Technology Series

By: Roberto Torretti

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Relativity and Geometry

Foundations and Philosophy of Science and Technology Series

By: Roberto Torretti

Relativity and Geometry aims to elucidate the motivation and significance of the changes in physical geometry brought about by Einstein, in both the first and the second phases of relativity. The book contains seven chapters and a mathematical appendix. The first two chapters review a historical background of relativity. Chapter 3 centers on Einstein's first Relativity paper of 1905. Subsequent chapter presents the Minkowskian formulation of special relativity. Chapters 5 and 6 deal with Einstein's search for general relativity from 1907 to 1915, as well as some aspects and subsequent developments of the theory. The last chapter explores the concept of simultaneity, geometric conventionalism, and a few other questions concerning space time structure, causality, and time.

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1483147371

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9781483147376

Creative Understanding

By: Roberto Torretti

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The Philosophy of Physics

By: Roberto Torretti

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The Philosophy of Physics

By: Roberto Torretti

Pursues the development of physics from Galileo and Newton to Einstein and the founders of quantum mechanics.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521565715

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Foundations and Philosophy of Science and Technology Series

By: Roberto Torretti

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The Philosophy of Physics

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Pursues the development of physics from Galileo and Newton to Einstein and the founders of quantum mechanics.

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Beauty and the Inferno

By: Roberto Saviano

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Beauty and the Inferno

By: Roberto Saviano

Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important collection includes essays on the legacy of the earthquake at L'Aquila, a town at risk of becoming overrun by mafia; on boxing as an escape route; on the life of the legendary South African jazz singer, Miriam Makeba; on an encounter with Salman Rushdie, and a tribute to Frank Miller, author of the graphic novel 300; on Michael Herr's Dispatches. One essay reflects on the aftermath of the publication of his book and subsequent film, Gomorrah, and how his life has been conditioned by the mafia's death threats, and the final essay in the collection celebrates the life of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

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MacLehose Press

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Creative Understanding

Creative Understanding

Creative Understanding

Creative Understanding

Relativity and Geometry

Relativity and Geometry

Creative Understanding

Creative Understanding

The Philosophy of Physics

The Philosophy of Physics

Relativity and Geometry

Relativity and Geometry

The Philosophy of Physics

The Philosophy of Physics

Beauty and the Inferno

Beauty and the Inferno

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