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Paul van Vlissingen en zoon
Ondernemers in stoomPaul van Vlissingen (1897-1876) is een pionier op het gebied van stoomenergie. Met zijn Amsterdamsche Stoomboot Maatschappij opent hij als eerste in Nederland een overzeese stoomscheepvaartverbinding: van Amsterdam naar Hamburg. Met Abraham Dudok van Heel start hij de Kon. Fabriek voor Stoom- en andere Werktuigen Paul van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel. Ze bouwen de eerste ijzeren stoomschepen met schroef in Nederland, de eerste stoomlocomotieven in Nederland, balansen voor de stoomgemalen Cruquius en Lijnden voor het droogleggen van de Haarlemmermeer en stoommachines voor de suikerindustrie in Suriname, Indië en West-Brabant. Zoon Paul Cornelis (1829-1906) bouwt het bedrijf vanaf 1850 verder uit. Hij neemt grote werken aan, zoals de constructie van het grootste droogdok in Azië. Hij participeert in de bouw van het Paleis van Volksvlijt en bouwt in 1870 de langste brug van Europa, de spoorbrug over het Hollands Diep bij Moerdijk. Maar het bedrijf gaat failliet en Paul C. emigreert naar Noord-Amerika. Aan het eind van de eeuw komt hij terug en is hij tot zijn dood opzichter van het stedelijk museum in Haarlem, het latere Frans Hals museum. De Fabriek maakte ondertussen een doorstart onder de naam Werkspoor. Dit boek is een bedrijfsgeschiedenis over een tijd dat bedrijven nog vooral familiebedrijven zijn. Het is daarmee ook een dramatische familiegeschiedenis, die zich uitstrekt over de hele 19de eeuw. Het is een verhaal over pioniers, over voorlopers.
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Blue Machine
How The Ocean Shapes Our World€ 14,95 -
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman
Adventures Of A Curious Character€ 14,95 -
The World According To Physics
Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinating and illuminating look at what physics reveals about the world
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Our Moon
Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship'TELEGRAPH'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth'You will never look at the Moon the same way again . . . fascinating'NEW STATESMAN'Boyle's writing shines, shifting through time and space, science and sentiment; a luminous read'REBECCA WRAGG SYKES, author of Kindred'An exciting read and a love letter to the Moon'NEW SCIENTIST'A riveting feat of science writing'ED YONG, author of An Immense WorldEvery living being throughout history, across time and geography, has gazed up at the same moon.From the first prehistoric life that crawled onto land guided by the power of the tides, to the division of time into months and seasons for the first humans, the moon has driven the expansion and development of our world.It has inspired scientific discovery and culture from the ancient astronomers to the scientific revolution of Copernicus and Galileo, from the 1969 Apollo landings to writers and artists, and stirred an inexhaustible desire to know where we come from and how we got here.And as astronauts around the world prepare to return to the Moon - opening up new frontiers of discovery, profit and politics - Our Moon tells the dazzling story of how the Moon has shaped life as we know it, fuelled dramatic change across the globe and could be the key to humanity's future.
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L'espace et le temps selon Einstein
« L'espace et le temps selon Einstein » de Charles Nordmann est un ouvrage captivant qui plonge le lecteur au coeur de la révolution scientifique du début du XXe siècle. Dans ce livre accessible et éclairant, Nordmann dévoile les mystères de la théorie de la relativité d'Einstein, bouleversant notre compréhension traditionnelle de l'univers.L'auteur commence par exposer les fondements de la physique classique avant de montrer comment Einstein a remis en question ces concepts séculaires. Il explique avec clarté comment la théorie de la relativité restreinte a unifié l'espace et le temps en une seule entité : l'espace-temps. Nordmann guide le lecteur à travers les implications vertigineuses de cette découverte, notamment la dilatation du temps et la contraction des longueurs.Le livre aborde ensuite la théorie de la relativité générale, explorant la notion révolutionnaire de courbure de l'espace-temps et ses conséquences sur notre compréhension de la gravitation. Nordmann illustre comment cette théorie a transformé notre vision du cosmos, ouvrant la voie à la cosmologie moderne.Cet ouvrage s'inscrit naturellement dans les catégories « Vulgarisation scientifique », « Histoire des sciences » et « Physique théorique » sur les plateformes de vente en ligne. Nordmann y déploie un talent rare pour rendre accessibles des concepts complexes, sans pour autant sacrifier la rigueur scientifique.« L'espace et le temps selon Einstein » ne se contente pas d'expliquer des théories. Il invite le lecteur à une réflexion profonde sur la nature de la réalité, remettant en question nos intuitions les plus fondamentales sur l'espace, le temps et la causalité. Nordmann montre comment les idées d'Einstein ont influencé non seulement la physique, mais aussi la philosophie et notre vision du monde.
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Numbers Don't Lie
'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning' Bill GatesIs flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From Earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet itself - in Numbers Don't Lie, Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using surprising statistics and illuminating graphs to challenge lazy thinking. Smil is on a mission to make facts matter, because after all, numbers may not lie, but which truth do they convey?'Smil's title says it all: to understand the world, you need to follow the trendlines, not the headlines. This is a compelling, fascinating, and most important, realistic portrait of the world and where it's going' Steven Pinker 'The best book to read to better understand our world. It should be on every bookshelf!' Linda Yueh'There is perhaps no other academic who paints pictures with numbers like Smil' GuardianVaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of over forty books on topics including energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment and public policy. No other living scientist has had more books (on a wide variety of topics) reviewed in Nature. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. This is his first book for a more general readership.
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How the World Really Works
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It's a tour de force' BILL GATES __________ We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check - because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts. In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, making their complete and rapid elimination unlikely. Drawing on the latest science and tackling sources of misinformation head on - from Yuval Noah Harari to Noam Chomsky - ultimately Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead? __________ 'Very informative and eye-opening in many ways' HA-JOON CHANG, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism 'If you are anxious about the future, and infuriated that we aren't doing enough about it, please read this book' PAUL COLLIER, author of The Future of Capitalism
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Fundamentals
One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way--bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before.Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe: time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind.
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Size
Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil busts myths around proportions - from bodies to paintings and the so-called golden ratio - tells us what Jonathan Swift got wrong in Gulliver's Travels and dives headfirst into the most contentious issue in ergonomics: the size of aeroplane seats.
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The Quantum Universe
Brian Cox (Author) Brian Cox is a Professor of Particle Physics and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and works at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. He is also a popular presenter on TV and radio.Jeff Forshaw (Author) Jeff Forshaw is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Manchester, specializing in the physics of elementary particles. He was awarded the Institute of Physics Maxwell Medal in 1999 for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics.
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The Emperor's New Mind
In his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating tour through the basic principles of physics, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy to show that human thinking can never be emulated by a machine.
€ 17,00