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• 1.万物简史 第60期:事物的测定(7)
• Once in a great while, a few times in history, a human mind produces an observation so acute and unexpected that people can't quite decide which is th...
• 2.万物简史 第59期:事物的测定(6)
• Quite what Halley expected to get from him when he made his unannounced visit in August 1684 we can only guess. But thanks to the later account of a N...
• 3.万物简史 第58期:事物的测定(5)
• For all his brilliance, real science accounted for only a part of his interests. At least half his working life was given over to alchemy and wayward ...
• 4.万物简史 第57期:事物的测定(4)
• Newton was a decidedly odd figurebrilliant beyond measure, but solitary, joyless, prickly to the point of paranoia, famously distracted (upon swinging...
• 5.万物简史 第56期:事物的测定(3)
• For all his achievements, however, Halley's greatest contribution to human knowledge may simply have been to take part in a modest scientific wager wi...
• 6.万物简史 第55期:事物的测定(2)
• At one point the group had to suspend work for eight months while La Condamine rode off to Lima to sort out a problem with their permits. Eventually h...
• 7.万物简史 第54期:事物的测定(1)
• PART II THE SIZE OF THE EARTH 第二部分 地球的大小 Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; 大自然和大自然的法则藏匿于黑夜之中； God said, Let Newton...
• 8.万物简史 第53期:埃文斯牧师的宇宙(17)
• At this point, about 4.5 billion years ago, an object the size of Mars crashed into Earth, blowing out enough material to form a companion sphere, the...
• 9.万物简史 第52期:埃文斯牧师的宇宙(16)
• About 4.6 billion years ago, a great swirl of gas and dust some 15 billion miles across accumulated in space where we are now and began to aggregate. ...
• 10.万物简史 第51期:埃文斯牧师的宇宙(15)
• It was he who coined the term Big Bang, in a moment of facetiousness, for a radio broadcast in 1952. He pointed out that nothing in our understanding ...