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Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity

By: Aczel, Amir

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Publisher: BASIC BOOKS:

Seller ID: 405687

ISBN: 156858105X

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Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

By: Aczel, Amir

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Seller ID: 390628

ISBN: 0743464796

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He was neither a mathematician nor a trained physicist and yet L on Foucault always knew that a mysterious force of nature was among us. Like Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, and others before him, Foucault sensed a dramatic relationship between the rotating skies above and the seemingly motionless ground beneath our feet. But it wasn't until 1851 -- in Paris, inside the Panth on, and in the company of fellow amateur scientist Napoleon III -- that Foucault swung a pendulum and demonstrated an extraordinary truth about the world: that it turns on its axis.
Pendulum is a fascinating jour...
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Riddle of the Compass

By: Aczel, Amir D.

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Publisher: HARVEST BOOKS: February 2011

Seller ID: 77266

ISBN: 0156007533

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The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece of metal was suspended in water, it always pointed north. This unexplainable occurrence led to the stone's use in feng shui, the Chinese art of finding the right location. However, it was the Italians, more than a thousand years later, who discovered the ultimate destiny of the lodestone and unleashed its formidable powers. In Amalfi sometime in the tw...
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Author:Aczel, Amir

Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity

Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

Riddle of the Compass