Book ID: CBB000102094

Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe (2000)

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Barrow, John D. (Author)


Pantheon Books


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xv + 361 pp., bibl., index
Language: English

Description From the zeros of mathematicians to the void of philosophers, from Shakespeare to the null set, from the ether to the quantum vacuum.


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Review Liddle, Andrew (2002) Review of "Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe". Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hegger, Ian Michael
Lammer, Andreas
Ricciardo, Salvatore
Zubov, Vasilii P.
Schmaltz, Tad M.
Sarnowsky, Jürgen
Concepts
Vacuum; emptiness; nothingness
Physics
Philosophy of science
Motion (physical)
Philosophy
Aristotelianism
Time Periods
17th century
Medieval
Ancient
16th century
3rd century, B.C.
Early modern
Places
Greece
France
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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