For many decades, the proponents of `artificial intelligence’ have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In ...
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Continue Reading →Hurry, hurry, hurry! Step right up! Welcome to Quantumland! Fall into an atom and dodge electrons! See the amazing Emperor think his clothes into existence! ...
Continue Reading →Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe is an influential treatise on science and nature written by the German scientist and explorer ...
Continue Reading →The Harmony of the World, by Johannes Kepler, is not only a seminal work in the history of astronomy but a case study in the ...
Continue Reading →Sidereus Nuncius (usually Sidereal Messenger, also Starry Messenger or Sidereal Message) is a short astronomical treatise (or pamphlet) published in New Latin by Galileo Galilei ...
Continue Reading →From Hipparchus and Ptolemy in the ancient world, through Copernicus and Brahe in the sixteenth century, astronomers had used geometrical models to give a kinematic ...
Continue Reading →In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking’s classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than ...
Continue Reading →BY W.H. MCCREA, F.R.S. ‘THE only justification for our concepts and system of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of ...
Continue Reading →The seminal work by one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, Physics and Philosophy is Werner Heisenberg’s concise and accessible ...
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