Author: Helge Kragh
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: controversy, cosmology
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 1999-02-22
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 069100546X
ISBN-13: 9780691005461

For over three millennia, most people could understand the universe only in terms of myth, religion, and philosophy. Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology transformed into a branch of physics. With this remarkably rapid change came a theory that would finally lend empirical support to many long-held beliefs about the origins and development of the entire universe: the theory of the big bang. In this book, Helge Kragh presents the development of scientific cosmology for the first time as a historical event, one that embroiled many famous scientists in a controversy over the very notion of an evolvin

Author: Helge Kragh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: history, cosmology, universe, accelerating, cosmos, myths, conceptions
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-02-08
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0199209162
ISBN-13: 9780199209163

This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific context. Starting with the creation stories of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the book covers all the major events in theoretical and observational cosmology, from Aristotle’s cosmos over the Copernican revolution to the discovery of the accelerating universe in the late 1990s. It presents cosmology as a subject including scientific as well as non-scientific dimensions, and tells the story of how it developed into

Author: Helge Kragh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: biography, scientific, dirac
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1990-03-30
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0521380898
ISBN-13: 9780521380898

This first full-length biography of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac offers a comprehensive account of his physics in its historical context, including less known areas such as cosmology and classical electron theory. It is based extensively on unpublished sources, including Dirac’s correspondence with Bohr, Heisenberg, Pauli, Schrödinger, Gamow and others. Dirac was undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and influential physicists of the twentieth century. Between 1925 and 1934, the Nobel Prize laureate revolutionized physics with his brilliant contributions to quantum theory. This work exa

Author: Helge S. Kragh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: science, historiography, introduction
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1989-11-24
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521389216
ISBN-13: 9780521389211

This book introduces the methodological and philosophical problems with which modern history of science is concerned, offering a comprehensive and critical review through description and evaluation of significant historiographical viewpoints. Incorporating discussion of key problems in general historical writing, with examples drawn from a range of disciplines, this non-elementary introduction bridges the gap between general history and history of science. Following a review of the early development of the history of science, the theory of history as applied to science history is introduced, e

Author: Helge Kragh
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: twentieth, century, physics, history, generations, quantum
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2002-03-04
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0691095523
ISBN-13: 9780691095523

At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only consist of filling in the details. They could hardly have been more wrong. The past century has seen the rise of quantum mechanics, relativity, cosmology, particle physics, and solid-state physics, among other fields. These subjects have fundamentally changed our understanding of space, time, and matter. They have also transformed daily life, inspiring a technological revolution that has included the development of radio

Authors:Carsten Jensen,  Finn Aaserud, Helge Kragh, Er
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Keywords: networks, historical, studies, science, decay, consensus, nuclear, beta, controversy
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-12-13
List price: $123.00
ISBN-10: 3764353139
ISBN-13: 9783764353131

Describes in detail the considerable efforts by theoretical and experimental physicists to understand the beta spectra of atomic nuclei.

Author: Soren Kjeldsen-Kragh
Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Pre
Keywords: economics, international
Number of Pages: 413
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $56.00
ISBN-10: 8763000377
ISBN-13: 9788763000376

This book offers an overall presentation of the economic knowledge that we have today about the causes and effects of international trade and international investments. These questions have been central in economic science since the appearance of modern economics with Adam Smith in the second half of the 18th century. During the last 20-30 years much has happened within the area, so today one can talk about a traditional theory and a newer theory building, although quite differentiated. The newer theories look at differentiated products, large-scale production and specialization of business ac