Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder, from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. A history of wonders as objects of natural inquiry is simultaneously an intellectual history of the orders of nature. A history of wonder as a passion of natural inquiry...(展开全部)

Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder, from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. A history of wonders as objects of natural inquiry is simultaneously an intellectual history of the orders of nature. A history of wonder as a passion of natural inquiry...(展开全部)

Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder, from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. A history of wonders as objects of natural inquiry is simultaneously an intellectual history of the orders of nature. A history of wonder as a passion of natural inquiry...(展开全部)

Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder, from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. A history of wonders as objects of natural inquiry is simultaneously an intellectual history of the orders of nature. A history of wonder as a passion of natural inquiry...(展开全部)

Over the past fifty years, the United States and other developed countries have made the transformation from industrial to information societies; knowledge has replaced mass production as the basis of wealth, power, and social interaction. At the same time, Western societies have endured increasing levels of crime, massive changes in fertility and family structure, decreasing l...(展开全部)

Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our universe as we've never seen it before. 13.7 billion years old. 93 billion light years wide. It contains over 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars. This infinite, vast and complex Universe has been the subject of human fascination ...(展开全部)

Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our universe as we've never seen it before. 13.7 billion years old. 93 billion light years wide. It contains over 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars. This infinite, vast and complex Universe has been the subject of human fascination ...(展开全部)

安德烈·瓦尔拉莫夫 （Andrey Varlamov） 超导理论和凝聚态物理学领域的著名科学家 1954年出生于苏联基辅；1980年在阿历克斯·阿布里科索夫指导下获凝聚态物理学博士学位，1986年获苏联国家青年科学家物理学奖，1990~1999任莫斯科钢铁与合金研究所理论物理系教授；1999年起任意大利国家研究委员会超导、新材料和器件研究所研究主任，罗马大学教授；2009年起任意大利科学院通讯院士；有8本超导理论方面的专著和130余篇科学论文；积极的科普作家，1986~1992年任苏联科学院科普杂志《量子》副主编；有50余篇科普作品发表于《量子》等著名科普刊物，主要由这些科普作品结集成书的《奇妙的物理学》出版于1987年，在其后25年内以6种语言出版了12版。 列夫·阿斯拉马卓夫 （Lev Aslamazov） 1944年出生于苏联巴顿；1980年获...(展开全部)

安德烈·瓦尔拉莫夫 （Andrey Varlamov） 超导理论和凝聚态物理学领域的著名科学家 1954年出生于苏联基辅；1980年在阿历克斯·阿布里科索夫指导下获凝聚态物理学博士学位，1986年获苏联国家青年科学家物理学奖，1990~1999任莫斯科钢铁与合金研究所理论物理系教授；1999年起任意大利国家研究委员会超导、新材料和器件研究所研究主任，罗马大学教授；2009年起任意大利科学院通讯院士；有8本超导理论方面的专著和130余篇科学论文；积极的科普作家，1986~1992年任苏联科学院科普杂志《量子》副主编；有50余篇科普作品发表于《量子》等著名科普刊物，主要由这些科普作品结集成书的《奇妙的物理学》出版于1987年，在其后25年内以6种语言出版了12版。 列夫·阿斯拉马卓夫 （Lev Aslamazov） 1944年出生于苏联巴顿；1980年获...(展开全部)

This book develops the best traditions of this kind of scientific literature. Written by working theoretical physicists who are at the same time dedicated popularizers of scientific knowledge, the book is clear and captivating in style. It brings to the reader the latest achievements of quantum solid-state physics; but on the way it shows how the laws of physics reveal themselv...(展开全部)