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Black bodies and quantum cats: tales from the annals of physics
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Penguin Books
Publication Date
2005
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English
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Foreword / Alan Chodos
1. Renaissance man : 1509 : publication of de divina proportione
2. Talkin' 'bout a revolution : 1542 : publication of de revolutionibus
3. Lens crafters : circa 1590 : invention of the microscope
4. Good heavens : January 7, 1610 : Galileo discovers moons of Jupiter
5. Gravity's guru : July 1687 : publication of Newton's principia
6. Drawing down the fire : June 1752 : Franklin's kite experiment
7. Trompe l'Oeil : 1807 : invention of the camera Lucida
8. Rules of attraction : 1820 : first evidence of electromagnetism
9. Ingenious engines : circa 1840s : Babbage's analytical engine
10. Emperors of the air : September 24, 1852 : first dirigible takes flight
11. Disorderly conduct : June 1871 : Maxwell and his demon
12. Queens of science : November 1872 : death of Mary Somerville
13. Calling Mister Watson : March 10, 1876 : first documented transmission of human speech
14. Thrill seekers : 1884 : first U.S. roller coaster opens at Coney Island
15. Current affairs : May 1888 : Tesla and electric power generation
16. Shadow casters : February 2, 1893 : Edison films a sneeze
17. Radio days : 1895 : tesla demonstrates wireless radio
18. Mysterious rays : November 8, 1895 : Roentgen discovers X rays
19. thousand points of light : October 1897 : discovery of the electron
20. Quantum leap : October 1900 : planck introduces quanta
21. It's all relative : June 1905 : Einstein introduces special relativity
22. Rocket man : March 16, 1926 : launch of the first liquid-fuel rocket
23. That darn cat : 1935 : Schrodinger's quantum cat
24. Copy that : October 1938 : first xerographic copy
25. Life during wartime : July 1945 : the trinity test
26. Gimme shelter : June 2-4, 1947 : the shelter island conference
27. Tiny bubbles : 1948 Reddi-Wip appears on the market
28. Mimicking mother nature : May 13, 1958 : Velcro trademark registered
29. Energize me : December 1958 : invention of the laser
30. Small world : December 29, 1959 : Feynman's classic caltech lecture
31. Contemplating chaos : Circa January 1961 : Lorenz and the butterfly effect
32. Kamikaze cosmos : July 1963 : discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
33. When particles collide : April 1994 : discovery of the top quark
34. Checkmate : May 1997 : deep blue defeats Kasparov
35. Much ado about nothing : December 1998 : discovery of the accelerating universe
36. case of the missing neutrinos : February 2001 : solution to solar neutrino problem
37. Icarus descending : September 2002 : Schden found guilty of scientific misconduct
38. String section : October 2003 : nova special on string theory.
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9780143036036
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