The influence of Einstein's thought extends beyond physics into other fields such as psychology, linguistics and ethics. 23 papers delivered at a 1979 symposium examine the range of one of the 20th century's great minds.<BR> ...

The perplexing silence that greeted Mendel's discovery of inheritance and his ultimate canonization as the father of genetics make up a tale of intrigue, jealousy, and a healthy dose of bad timing. Henig now crafts this suspenseful narrative that evokes the monk's life and work. ...

In 1979, Michael Klein, an aspiring singer/songwriter living in New York City, was broke, friendless, and drinking too much. When his lover, Richard, left him to work on a race track, Klein followed, and so began his extraordinary five-year sojourn on tracks in Ohio, New York, Florida, and finally Kentucky. At the 110th running of the Kentucky Derby, where he was groom to the winning horse, Klein was led from the winner's circle into the center ...

Newton is the focal point of Book Two of Hakim's The Story of Science series, with his monumental discoveries about gravity, motion, and light marking the true beginning of science as it is known today.
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1902. This is a study of Huxley, who made numerous discoveries and contributions to biological science and was a luminous expositor of the theory of organic evolution. Contents: Chronology; The Man; The Discoverer; The Interpreter; The Controversialist; The Constructor; and a Note on the Doctrine of the Unknowable. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ...

1930. This is the autobiography of Jerome Cardan, a celebrated Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler. During his lifetime he made major contributions to algebra and to probability, hydrodynamics, mechanics and geology. Cardan was the first to study such things as dice rolling, or probability theory. But all was not rosy in Cardan's life and he writes in this volume that the four greatest sadnesses in his life were: his ...

In this page-turning biography, Silverstein explores one Boy Scout's out-of-control love affair with science and his astonishing attempt to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard. High school & older. ...

In Jan. 1824, at Playford, I was working on the effects of separating the two lenses of an object-glass, and on the kind of eye-piece which would be necessary: also on spherical aberrations and Saturn's figure. On my quires at Cambridge I was working on the effects of separating the object-glass lenses, with the view of correcting the secondary spectrum: and on Jan. 31st I received some numbers (indices of refraction) from Mr Herschel, and ...

Aged Botanist? marry come up! (Sir J. Hooker jestingly congratulated him on taking up botany in his old age.) I should like to know of a younger spark. The first time I heard myself called "the old gentleman" was years ago when we were in South Devon. A half-drunken Devonian had made himself very offensive, in the compartment in which my wife and I were travelling, and got some "simple Saxon" from me, accompanied, I doubt not, by an awful scowl ...

This book is a biography of Albert Einstein and also discusses his theory. The Theory of Relativity is a masterpiece of science that greatly increased our understanding of the universe and profoundly influenced our world. This book has simple derivations of his theory. The goal of this book is to help high school and college students, as well as the general public, understand Einstein's theory and his philosophy. His grandson, Bernard Einstein, ...