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Quirky Sides of Scientists

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    Chapter 1 Tenacity and Stubbornness: Einstein on Theory and Experiment
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    Chapter 2 Convergence or Coincidence: Ancient Measurements of the Sun and Moon—How Far?
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    Chapter 3 The Rationality of Simplicity: Copernicus on Planetary Motion
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    Chapter 4 The Silence of Scientists: Venus’s Brightness, Earth’s Precession, and the Nebula in Orion
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    Chapter 5 Progress Through Error: Stars and Quasars—How Big, How Far?
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    Chapter 6 The Data Fit the Model but the Model is Wrong: Kepler and the Structure of the Cosmos
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    Chapter 7 Art Illustrates Science: Galileo, a Blemished Moon, and a Parabola of Blood
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    Chapter 8 Ensnared in Circles: Galileo and the Law of Projectile Motion
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    Chapter 9 Aesthetics and Holism: Newton on Light, Color, and Music
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    Chapter 10 Missing One’s Own Discovery Newton and the First Idea of an Artificial Satellite
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    Chapter 11 A Change of Mind: Newton and the Comet(s?) of 1680 and 1681
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    Chapter 12 A Well-Nigh Discovery: Einstein and the Expanding Universe
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Chapter title
A Change of Mind: Newton and the Comet(s?) of 1680 and 1681
Chapter number 11
Book title
Quirky Sides of Scientists
Published by
Springer, New York, NY, January 2007
DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-71019-8_11
Book ISBNs
978-0-387-71018-1, 978-0-387-71019-8
Authors

David R. Topper, Topper, David R.

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