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Going underground : the science and history of falling through the Earth /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beech, Martin, 1959- (Author)
Corporate Author: World Scientific (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2019]
Subjects:
Science > History.
Mathematics > History.
Philosophy and science > History.
Thought experiments.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A long distraction
  • Wishing well
  • Cymro's problem
  • The heat of ages
  • Terricola's questions
  • Flamsteed's well
  • Airy underground
  • A mind's eye view
  • Tik-Tok's tumble
  • Eratosthenes's well
  • Aristotle's stop and the Merton calculators
  • Galileo's constant cannonball
  • Hooke's bullet and Newton's cannon
  • Newton's canal
  • Halley's hollow Earth
  • Dr. Akakea's Diatribe and Euler's miracle
  • Collignon's slant
  • Fastest descent
  • The kola pinprick and the iron blob
  • A black hole falling
  • The elephant in the room
  • First and last thoughts.