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Quirky Sides of Scientists

True Tales of Ingenuity and Error from Physics and Astronomy

David R Topper

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29 October 2010
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Tenacity and Stubbornness: Einstein on Theory and Experiment.- Convergence or Coincidence: Ancient Measurements of the Sun and Moon-How Far?.- The Rationality of Simplicity: Copernicus on Planetary Motion.- The Silence of Scientists: Venus's Brightness, Earth's Precession, and the Nebula in Orion.- Progress Through Error: Stars and Quasars-How Big, How Far?.- The Data Fit the Model but the Model is Wrong: Kepler and the Structure of the Cosmos.- Art Illustrates Science: Galileo, a Blemished Moon, and a Parabola of Blood.- Ensnared in Circles: Galileo and the Law of Projectile Motion.- Aesthetics and Holism: Newton on Light, Color, and Music.- Missing One's Own Discovery Newton and the First Idea of an Artificial Satellite.- A Change of Mind: Newton and the Comet(s?) of 1680 and 1681.- A Well-Nigh Discovery: Einstein and the Expanding Universe.

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Tenacity and Stubbornness: Einstein on Theory and Experiment.- Convergence or Coincidence: Ancient Measurements of the Sun and Moon-How Far?.- The Rationality of Simplicity: Copernicus on Planetary Motion.- The Silence of Scientists: Venus's Brightness, Earth's Precession, and the Nebula in Orion.- Progress Through Error: Stars and Quasars-How Big, How Far?.- The Data Fit the Model but the Model is Wrong: Kepler and the Structure of the Cosmos.- Art Illustrates Science: Galileo, a Blemished Moon, and a Parabola of Blood.- Ensnared in Circles: Galileo and the Law of Projectile Motion.- Aesthetics and Holism: Newton on Light, Color, and Music.- Missing One's Own Discovery Newton and the First Idea of an Artificial Satellite.- A Change of Mind: Newton and the Comet(s?) of 1680 and 1681.- A Well-Nigh Discovery: Einstein and the Expanding Universe.

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