Weighing the World

Weighing the World
Author: Edwin Danson
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2009-05-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780199725090

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At the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in the world. No one knew, with any certainty, the shape of the earth or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or solid? Were the Andes the highest mountains on the Earth or was it the peak of Tenerife? Was the Earth a perfect sphere or slightly squashed as Sir Isaac Newton prophesized? In Weighing the World, master-surveyor and bestselling author Edwin Danson presents the stories of the scientists and scholars who cut their way through jungles, crossed the artic tundra, and braved the world's highest mountains to discover the truth about our Earth. Danson also recounts the extraordinary experiment, conducted on a desolate Scottish peak by Astromer Royal Neville Maskelyne, to understand the so-called "attraction of mountains," the curious capability mountians have to bend gravity, without which it would be impossible to accurately map Earth's surface. A spell-binding scientific adventure story, Weighing the World will intrigue anyone curious about the shape of our planet and how we have come to know it.

Weighing the World

Weighing the World
Author: Russell McCormmach
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2011-12-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789400720220

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The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts. The first and longest part is biographical, an account of Michell’s home setting (Nottinghamshire in England), the clerical world in which he grew up (Church of England), the university (Cambridge) where he studied and taught, and the scientific activities he made the center of his life. The second part is a complete edition of his known letters. Half of his letters have not been previously published; the other half are brought together in one place for the first time. The letters touch on all aspects of his career, and because they are in his words, they help bring the subject to life. His publications were not many, a slim book on magnets and magnetism, one paper on geology, two papers on astronomy, and a few brief papers on other topics, but they were enough to leave a mark on several sciences. He has been called a geologist, an astronomer, and a physicist, which he was, though we best remember him as a natural philosopher, as one who investigated physical nature broadly. His scientific contribution is not easy to summarize. Arguably he had the broadest competence of any British natural philosopher of the eighteenth century: equally skilled in experiment and observation, mathematical theory, and instruments, his field of inquiry was the universe. From the structure of the heavens through the structure of the Earth to the forces of the elementary particles of matter, he carried out original and far-reaching researches on the workings of nature.

Marshall Brain s How Stuff Works

Marshall Brain s How Stuff Works
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Wiley
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2001-09-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0764565192

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Have you ever wondered... How many sheets of paper can be produced from a single tree? Why do FM radio stations end in an odd number? What causes a sonic boom? Where is the world's fastest computer located? If you've ever scratched your head and thought, why?," you'll love How Much Does the Earth Weigh? With more than 100 of the most popular questions culled from the intriguing "Question of the Day" segment of HowStuffWorks.com, this fun book answers questions you never even thought to ask. Written in Marshall Brain's award-winning style, this book explains in language you can understand the complexities behind some of the world's imponderables. You'll never look at a light socket, gas pump, or Web page the same way again!

Weighing the World

Weighing the World
Author: Benjamin C. Orsburn
Publsiher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2014-06-09
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1499635753

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Mass spectrometry is one of the most rapidly growing fields in science. In this book we will learn why and how this technology is changing our view and understanding of the world around us. We'll see how mass spectrometry is being used to convict criminals and to detect explosives. We'll see how it is leading us to the discovery of new drugs and telling us what becomes of these drugs in the body before toxic side effects could ever appear. We'll talk about the curious mission of the Curiosity Rover and how this new science even effects when we change our motor oil. We'll look at where the technology came from as well as where it appears to be heading by describing some of the cutting edge research and techniques that are opening up our understanding of our world -- and even our minds.

Weighing Reasons

Weighing Reasons
Author: Errol Lord,Barry Maguire
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780190613860

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In recent decades normative reasons-considerations that count in favor of one thing or another-have come to the theoretical fore in ethics and epistemology. A major attraction of normative reasons is that they have weight or strength. Reasons are particular considerations that count in favor of actions or attitudes to some degree. This feature is attractive to theorists who want to explain more complex normative phenomena in terms of a notion that is weighted. This volume aims to provide the beginnings for a theory of weight. The fourteen new essays fall into three groups. One set of essays addresses questions about the nature of weight. Topics include the relations between reasons and conditions and modifiers, between reasons and other weighted notions such as commitments, and different models of the interaction of reasons. A second set of essays addresses substantive questions: questions about weight relevant to value-first, desire-first, evidence-first and other normative research programs. A third set of essays applies issues in the theory of weight to broader ethical debates. The book thus not only makes novel contributions to debates in ethics and epistemology about the nature of normative reasons and their weight, it also makes a strong case for the theoretical fruitfulness of the ideology of normative reasons.

Specifications Tolerances and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices

Specifications  Tolerances  and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices
Author: National Conference on Weights and Measures
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2003
Genre: Scales (Weighing instruments)
ISBN: PSU:000049661538

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Weighing the Future

Weighing the Future
Author: Natali Valdez
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780520380141

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"Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression and has been heralded as one of the most promising new fields of scientific inquiry. Current large-scale pregnancy studies draw on epigenetics to connect pregnant women's behavioral choices, like diet and exercise, to future health risks for unborn babies. As the first ethnography of its kind, Weighing the Future examines the sociopolitical implications of ongoing pregnancy trials in the United States and the United Kingdom, illuminating how processes of scientific knowledge production are linked to capitalism, surveillance, and environmental reproduction. The environments we imagine to shape our genes, bodies, and future health are tied to race, gender, and structures of inequality. This groundbreaking book makes the case that science, and how we translate it, is a reproductive project that requires feminist vigilance. Instead of fixating on a future at risk, this book brings attention to the present at stake"--

Turmeric Curcuma longa L and Ginger Zingiber officinale Rosc World s Invaluable Medicinal Spices

Turmeric  Curcuma longa L   and Ginger  Zingiber officinale Rosc     World s Invaluable Medicinal Spices
Author: Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2019-10-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783030291891

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This book discusses the various aspects, from production to marketing of turmeric and ginger, the world’s two most important and invaluable medicinal spice crops. The book begins with their origin and history, global spread, and goes on to describe the botany, production agronomy, fertilizer practices, pest management, post-harvest technology, pharmacology and nutraceutical uses. The book presents the economy, import-export and world markets involved with reference to turmeric and ginger. It would be a benchmark and an important reference source for scientists, students, both undergraduate and post graduate, studying agriculture and food sciences and policy makers. It would be of great interest to professionals and industry involved in spice trade.