An edition of Feynman's lost lecture (1996)

Feynman's lost lecture

the motion of planets around the sun

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An edition of Feynman's lost lecture (1996)

Feynman's lost lecture

the motion of planets around the sun

1st ed.
  • 3.5 (2 ratings) ·
  • 7 Want to read
  • 2 Have read

"On March 13, 1964, Feynman delivered a lecture to the Caltech freshman class, "The Motion of Planets Around the Sun"why the planets move elliptically instead of in perfect circles. For reasons unknown, most probably for his own amusement, he chose to make the argument using mathematics no more advanced than high-school plane geometry. Isaac Newton had pulled off much the same trick nearly 300 years earlier in his masterpiece, the Principia. Feynman, unable to follow Newton's obscure proof, invented his own original, geometrical proof in the Caltech lecture." "The subject of Feynman's lecture was the watershed discovery that separated the ancient world discovery that separated the ancient world from the modern world - the culmination of the Scientific Revolution. Before Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton, the universe was Earth-centered. After their discoveries, our idea of the universe steadily altered and expanded, moving outward to the infinity we try to understand in our own time. Thus Feynman deals here with a crowning achievement of the human mind, comparable to Beethoven's symphonies. Shakespeare's plays, or Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. Feynman conclusively demonstrates the astonishing fact that has mystified and intrigued all deep thinkers since Newton's time: Nature obeys mathematics." "For thirty years this brilliant and seminal lecture lay dormant in the Caltech archives. Now, in this book, Feynman's lost lecture has been reconstructed and explained in meticulous detail together with a history of ideas of the planets' motions. Anyone who remembers high-school geometry can enjoy it and can profit from the compact disc that accompanies this book."--BOOK JACKET.

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Norton
Language
English
Pages
191

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Cover of: Feynman's lost lecture
Feynman's lost lecture: the motion of planets around the sun
1997, Vintage
in English
Cover of: Feynman's lost lecture
Feynman's lost lecture: the motion of planets around the sun
1996, Norton
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-184) and index.

Published in
New York
Other Titles
Motion of planets around the sun

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
521/.3
Library of Congress
QB603.M6 G66 1996, QB603.M6G66 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
191 p. :
Number of pages
191

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL802299M
Internet Archive
feynmanslostlect0000good
ISBN 10
0393039188
LCCN
95038719
OCLC/WorldCat
33078849
Library Thing
27746
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56167

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