"[...] Many nineteenth-century dissenters against an emerging regime of U.S. space power nonetheless saw in the tools of astronomy, land surveying, and navigation a means of producing alternatives to that regime. And it is to these dissenters that this book will turn for insight…
"The cosmic aspirations of present-day United States nationalists are not recent developments. Efforts to control and exploit the universe have deep roots in the nineteenth century. From John Adams to military explorer John C. Frémont to astronomer Maria Mitchell, officials and …
"The cosmic aspirations of present-day United States nationalists are not recent developments. Efforts to control and exploit the universe have deep roots in the nineteenth century. From John Adams to military explorer John C. Frémont to astronomer Maria Mitchell, officials and …
In Star Territory Gordon Fraser charts how the project of rationalizing the cosmos enabled the nineteenth-century expansion of U.S. territory and explores the alternative and resistant cosmologies of free and enslaved Blacks and indigenous peoples.
A review of the status of particle physics at the end of the century. The text explains the achievements in particle physics, the 20 essays covering the post war period to the 1990s.
A review of the status of particle physics at the end of the century. The text explains the achievements in particle physics, the 20 essays covering the post war period to the 1990s.
Underpinning all the other branches of science, physics affects the way we live our lives, and ultimately how life itself functions ... In [this book], 23 ... physicists explore the frontiers of modern physics, from the particles inside an atom to the stars that make up a galaxy…
