1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455915403321

Titolo

Improving America's diet and health [[electronic resource] ] : from recommendations to action / / a report of the Committee on Dietary Guidelines Implementation, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine ; Paul R. Thomas, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1991

ISBN

1-280-21286-1

9786610212866

0-309-57442-0

0-585-02105-8

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 239 p

Altri autori (Persone)

ThomasPaul R. <1953->

Disciplina

363.8/0973

Soggetti

Diet - Standards - United States

Nutrition policy - United States

Health

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972763103321

Autore

Barbour Julian B

Titolo

The discovery of dynamics : a study from a Machian point of view of the discovery and the structure of dynamical theories / / Julian B. Barbour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-028515-X

0-19-773220-8

1-280-83331-9

9786610833313

0-19-535110-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (775 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

531/.11

Soggetti

Astronomy

Dynamics

Motion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Aristotle: first airing of the absolute/relative problem; 3 Hellenistic astronomy: the foundations are laid; 4 The Middle Ages: first stirrings of the scientific revolution; 5 Copernicus: the flimsy arch; 6 Kepler: the dominion of the sun; 7 Galileo: the geometrization of motion; 8 Descartes and the new world; 9 Huygens: relativity and centrifugal force; 10 Newton I: the discovery of dynamics; 11 Newton II: absolute or relative motion?; 12 Post-Newtonian conceptual clarification of Newtonian dynamics

Abbreviations for works quoted frequently in the ReferencesReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explains the history and philosophy that led to the development of classical dynamics by Newton, and then places Newtonian dynamics in the perspective of unresolved questions relating to the basic concepts of space, time and motion.