[PDF] The Elements Of The Cosmos eBook

Author : Scenza
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Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 2020-08-29
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Our spiritual ancestors encoded their understanding of the cosmos into the very numbers and letters we use to describe the world. Fields as diverse as architecture, fine art, mathematics, and music are all underpinned by a common numeric symbolism. The Elements of the Cosmos: Numbers & Letters as Archetypes pierces the veil to shed a modern light on these ancient mysteries.The text is divided into two main sections. Section I introduces the principles of Sacred Geometry through an exploration of the arithmetic, geometric, and symbolic properties of the first ten digits. Section II investigates the esoteric structure of the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet, linking the letters to the symbolism of the numbers. In addition to the traditional analytic avenues of Idea, Number, and Form, the author reveals a new mode of interpretation: that of sound symbolism.Numbers and letters are at the heart of every student's education. In The Elements of the Cosmos: Numbers & Letters as Archetypes, those numbers and letters assume the ponderous, profoundly spiritual values they were originally designed to possess.

Author : Brian Cox
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0306822717

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An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, the international bestselling authors of Why Does E=MC2? and The Quantum Universe, with 55 black-&-white and 45 full-color pages featuring photographs, diagrams, maps, tables, and graphs. We dare to imagine a time before the Big Bang, when the entire universe was compressed into a space smaller than an atom. And now, as Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw show, we can do more than imagine: we can understand. Universal takes us on an epic journey of scientific exploration. It reveals how we can all come to grips with some of the most fundamental questions about our Earth, Sun, and solar system--and the star-filled galaxies beyond. How big is our solar system? How quickly is space expanding? How big is the universe? What is it made of? Some of these questions can be answered on the basis of observations you can make in your own backyard. Other answers draw on the astonishing information now being gathered by teams of astronomers operating at the frontiers of the known universe. At the heart of all this lies the scientific method. Science reveals a deeper beauty and connects us to each other, to our world, and to our universe. Science reaches out into the unknown. As Universal demonstrates, if we dare to imagine, we can do the same.

Author : Giora Shaviv
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642283853

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This book describes the origins and evolution of the chemical elements we and the cosmos are made of. The story starts with the discovery of the common elements on Earth and their subsequent discovery in space. How do we learn the composition of the distant stars? How did progress in quantum theory, nuclear physics, spectroscopy, stellar structure and evolution, together with observations of stars, converge to provide an incredibly detailed picture of the universe? How does research in the micro-world explain the macro-world? How does progress in one affect the other, or lack of knowledge in one inhibit progress in the other? In short, Shaviv describes how we discovered the various pieces of the jigsaw that form our present picture of the universe; and how we sometimes put these in the wrong place before finding in the right one. En route we meet some fascinating personalities and learn about heated controversies. Shaviv shows how science lurched from one dogma to the next, time and again shattering much of what had been considered solid knowledge, until eventually a stable understanding arose. Beginning with generally accepted science, the book ends in today’s terra incognita of nuclear physics, astrophysics and cosmology. A monumental work that will fascinate scientists, philosophers, historians and lay readers alike.

Author : Bernard Ephraim Julius Pagel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 1992-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521414753

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While there have been many books on cosmology and galactic and stellar evolution in which abundance analysis of astrophysical objects has played some part, this book is the first one for several years where specialists in the various relevant fields discuss the basis and implications of the subject as a whole. The major aim of the book is to bring together the results from high redshift studies and galactic studies in a coherent way and to cover relevant aspects of nuclear and atomic physics.

Author : Eric Scerri
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0195391314

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In A Tale of Seven Elements, Eric Scerri presents the fascinating history of those seven elements discovered to be mysteriously "missing" from the periodic table in 1913.

Author : James T. Andrews
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2011-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 082297746X

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The launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957 changed the course of human history. In the span of a few years, Soviets sent the first animal into space, the first man, and the first woman. These events were a direct challenge to the United States and the capitalist model that claimed ownership of scientific aspiration and achievement. The success of the space program captured the hopes and dreams of nearly every Soviet citizen and became a critical cultural vehicle in the country's emergence from Stalinism and the devastation of World War II. It also proved to be an invaluable tool in a worldwide propaganda campaign for socialism, a political system that could now seemingly accomplish anything it set its mind to. Into the Cosmos shows us the fascinating interplay of Soviet politics, science, and culture during the Khrushchev era, and how the space program became a binding force between these elements. The chapters examine the ill-fitted use of cosmonauts as propaganda props, the manipulation of gender politics after Valentina Tereshkova's flight, and the use of public interest in cosmology as a tool for promoting atheism. Other chapters explore the dichotomy of promoting the space program while maintaining extreme secrecy over its operations, space animals as media darlings, the history of Russian space culture, and the popularity of space-themed memorabilia that celebrated Soviet achievement and planted the seeds of consumerism.

Author : Theodore Gray
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 1629 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 1603764054

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With more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, The Elements is the most entertaining, comprehensive, and visually arresting book on all 118 elements in the periodic table. Includes a poster of Theodore Gray's iconic photographic periodic table of the elements! Based on seven years of research and photography by Theodore Gray and Nick Mann, The Elements presents the most complete and visually arresting representation available to the naked eye of every atom in the universe. Organized sequentially by atomic number, every element is represented by a big beautiful photograph that most closely represents it in its purest form. Several additional photographs show each element in slightly altered forms or as used in various practical ways. Also included are fascinating stories of the elements, as well as data on the properties of each, including atomic number, atomic symbol, atomic weight, density, atomic radius, as well as scales for electron filling order, state of matter, and an atomic emission spectrum. This of solid science and stunning artistic photographs is the perfect gift book for every sentient creature in the universe.

Author : Donald D. Clayton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521823811

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An information resource about the isotopes and their place in the cosmos.