First You Build A Cloud
And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life
On Sale: 04/15/1999
First You Build A Cloud
And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life
On Sale: 04/15/1999
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About the Book
For many of us, physics, like math, has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. In First You Build a Cloud, K. C. Cole provides cogent explanations through animated prose, metaphors, and anecdotes, allowing us to comprehend the nuances of physics-gravity and light, color and shape, quarks and quasars, particles and stars, force and strength. We also come to see how the physical world is so deeply intertwined with the ways in which we think about culture, poetry, and philosophy. Cole, one of our preeminent science writers, serves as a guide into the world of such legendary scientific minds as Richard Feynman, Victor Weisskopf, brothers Frank Oppenheimer and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Philip Morrison, Vera Kistiakowsky, and Stephen Jay Gould.Product Details
- ISBN: 9780156006460
- ISBN 10: 0156006464
- Imprint: Mariner Books
- On Sale: 04/15/1999
- Pages: 240
- List Price:23.99 CAD
- BISAC1 : SCIENCE / History
- BISAC2 : SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
- BISAC3 : SCIENCE / Physics / General
- BISAC4 : HISTORY / Social History
- BISAC5 : SCIENCE / Applied Sciences
- BISAC6 : SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics
- BISAC7 : SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear
- BISAC8 : SCIENCE / Natural History
- BISAC9 : SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General
- BISAC10 : SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity
