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• List of Plates-- Preface-- Short Titles and Abbreviations-- Introduction-- The Correspondence.
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As Newton had by now entered his eighth decade, it can be no surprise that the correspondence in this sixth volume shows a marked decline in his activity and intellectual vigour. While the number of extant letters written by him on other that Mint business is relatively small, the majority of them are devoted to his controversy with Leibniz - Newton's dominant interest during this period. The correspondence of Newton shades gradually into the correspondence of the Newtonians. Thus notably Keill, De Moivre, Chamberlayne, Brook Taylor, the Abbe Conti and Des Maizeaux interested themselves in the calculus dispute, all of them (except the first) having frequent opportunities for personal conversation with Newton.
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• Preface-- Acknowledgments-- A note about dates-- Abbreviations used in footnotes--
• 1. The discovery of a new world--
• 2. A sober, silent, thinking lad--
• 3. The solitary scholar--
• 4. Resolving problems by motion--
• 5. Anni mirabiles--
• 6. Lucasian professor--
• 7. Publication and crisis--
• 8. Rebellion--
• 9. Years of silence--
• 10. Principia--
• 11. Revolution--
• 12. The Mint--
• 13. President of the Royal Society--
• 14. The priority dispute--
• 15. Years of decline-- Bibliographical essay-- List of illustrations-- Index.
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This richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian, and the public figure. Professor Westfall treats all aspects of Newton's career, but his account centres on a full description of Newton's achievements in science. Thus the core of the work describes the development of the calculus, the experimentation that altered the direction of the science of optics, and especially the investigations in celestial dynamics that led to the law of universal gravitation.
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• --Copernicus.--Keppler.--Galilei.--Newton.--Faraday.--Robert Mayer.--Helmholtz.

• School time in Germany.- Transition to America.- Beginnings in physics as a student
• Princeton and Cal Tech.- Early research and beginning of World War II.- War work
• Cal Tech and Los Alamos.- UC Berkeley: accelerator building, research, teaching.- The Korean War: the loyalty oath and the Materials Test Accelerator.- Beginnings at Stanford: solidifying the Hansen Laboratories-- research and teaching.- Involvement in science advising post-World War II: negotiations and military policy work.- Big science and the start of SLAC.- SLAC management and operation.- The decision to retire and to concentrate on arms control. The nuclear weapons threat after the Cold War.
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Panofsky on Physics, Politics and Peace - Pief Remembers.
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• Symmetry
• Magnetism
• Fusion
• White flash
• Instability of matter
• Half-life
• Isolation
• Exposure
• Daughter elements.

The name Marie Curie is enshrined in every schoolchild's mind as one of the earliest and most inspirational female pioneers in the history of science. Yet the rich, vivid, and romantic story of Marya Salome Sklodwska - the young Polish national who discovered radioactivity - has been lost to time ...until now, in the pages of this stunning, wildly creative, and uniquely moving visual biography by one of the most creative artistic talents working today. Lauren Redniss, a celebrated "New York Times" illustrator and storyteller, has thrown herself deeply and passionately into researching the story of the real Marie Curie; of her passionate and tragic romantic life; and, of the century of scientific innovation and controversy that sprang from her discovery of radium and went on to change the course of world history. Drawing on her original archival research in Europe and the United States - and a host of new interviews with Curie family members and scientists who carry on the Curie tradition - Redniss has created a fascinating and deeply moving book. A visually stunning work of illustrative art, "Radioactive" walks the reader through the story of Curie's own life, which was marked by both extraordinary scientific discovery and dramatic personal trauma - from her romantic partnership with Pierre, through his tragic decline from radium poisoning and death in a traffic accident, to the scandalous affair with another fellow scientist that almost cost her second Nobel Prize. But it also casts an eye forward, to survey the changes wrought by Curie's discovery of radioactivity-illuminating the path from the Curie laboratory past the bright red mushroom clouds in the Nevada desert through Three Mile Island and the advance in radiation therapy and nuclear power today. Whether young or old, scientific novice or expert, no one will fail to be moved by Lauren Redniss' eerie and wondrous evocation of one of history's most intriguing figures.
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