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Foucault's pendulum / by Eco, Umberto.(CARDINAL)139063;

Translation of: Il pendolo di Foucault. "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book.

Subjects: Paranormal fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Alchemists; Foucault's pendulum; Idolatry; Religions; Thought and thinking; Vodou;

Available copies: 21 / Total copies: 29

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Come see the Earth turn : the story of Léon Foucault / by Mortensen, Lori,1955-(CARDINAL)477426; Allen, Raul,illustrator.(CARDINAL)486416;

Includes bibliographical references.Allen, RaulExplores the life and work of nineteenth-century French physicist Leon Foucault, who invented a pendulum that provided proof that the Earth rotated on its axis.910LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Biographies.; Foucault, Léon, 1819-1868; 1819-1868; Foucault's pendulum; Physicists;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6

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The new knighthood : a history of the Order of the Temple / by Barber, Malcolm.(CARDINAL)717424;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Origins -- The concept -- The rise of the Templars in the east in the twelfth century -- Hattin to La Forbie -- The last years of the Templars in Palestine and Syria -- Templar life -- The Templar network -- The end of the Order -- From Molay's curse to Foucault's Pendulum.

Subjects: Templars;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Many more of Janice Vancleave's wild, wacky, and weird earth science experiments / by VanCleave, Janice Pratt,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.In a series of fun and involving hands-on earth science experiments, kids learn why the atmosphere is thinner at the Earth's poles, how a lunar eclipse can indicate Earth's shape, and how to create a Foucault's pendulum. They will also demonstrate continental drift, learn how to model meridians and parallels, and create a topographic map and a 3D model of a mountain. Featuring color illustrations and safe, simple step-by-step instructions, Janice VanCleave shows just how much fun science can be.Grades 5 to 8.

Subjects: Earth sciences; Science projects; Earth sciences; Science projects.; Experiments.;

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Pendulum : Léon Foucault and the triumph of science / by Aczel, Amir D.(CARDINAL)768191;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.A stunning discovery in the cellar -- Ancient logic: Bible and inquisition -- Failed experiments with falling bodies-- A science "irregular" in the age of the engineer -- The meridian of Paris -- "Come see the earth turn" -- Mathematical Bedlam -- A new Bonaparte -- The force of Coriolis -- The Panthéon -- The Gyroscope -- The Coup d'État and the second empire -- An unemployed genius -- The observatory physicist -- Final glory -- A premature end -- The defeat at Sedan -- Aftermath.In 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Lǒn Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthǒn in Paris. By tracking a pendulum's path as it swung repeatedly across the interior of the large ceremonial hall, Foucault offered the first definitive proof -- before an audience that comprised the cream of Parisian society, including the future emperor, Napoleon III -- that the earth revolves on its axis. In this book, Amir Aczel has revealed the life of a gifted physicist who had almost no formal education in science, and yet managed to succeed despite the adversity he suffered at the hands of his peers. Foucault gave us the modern electric compass, devised an electric microscope, invented photographic technology, and made remarkable deductions about color theory, heat waves, and the speed of light. Yet until now so little has been known about his life. Pendulum tells of the illustrious period in France during the Second Empire; of Foucault's relationship with Napoleon III, a colorful character in his own right; and -- most notably -- of the crucial triumph of science over religion.

Subjects: Biographies.; Foucault, Léon, 1819-1868.; Physicists; Religion and science; Scientists;

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Numero zero / by Eco, Umberto,author.(CARDINAL)139063; Dixon, Richard,translator.(CARDINAL)353734;

"From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder. A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. A paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double. The murder of Pope John Paul I, the CIA, red terrorists handled by secret services, twenty years of bloodshed, and events that seem outlandish until the BBC proves them true. A fragile love story between two born losers, a failed ghost writer, and a vulnerable girl, who specializes in celebrity gossip yet cries over the second movement of Beethoven's Seventh. And then a dead body that suddenly appears in a back alley in Milan. Set in 1992 and foreshadowing the mysteries and follies of the following twenty years, Numero Zero is a scintillating take on our times from the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum"--

Subjects: Alternative histories (Fiction); Civilization, Modern; Political satire.; Social satire.;

Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 20

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The physics book : from the big bang to quantum resurrection, 250 milestones in the history of physics / by Pickover, Clifford A.,author.(CARDINAL)329147;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 518-525) and index.Setting the stage. 13.7 billion B.C. Big bang -- 3 billion B.C. Black diamonds -- 2 billion B.C. Prehistoric nuclear reactor -- The discoveries. 30,000 B.C. Atlatl -- 20,000 B.C. Boomerang -- 3000 B.C. Sundial -- 2500 B.C. Truss -- 1850 B.C. Arch -- 1000 B.C. Olmec compass -- 341 B.C. Crossbow -- 250 B.C. Baghdad battery -- 250 B.C. Siphon -- 250 B.C. Archimedes' principal of buoyancy -- 250 B.C. Archimedean screw -- 240 B.C. Eratosthenes measures the earth -- 230 B.C. Pulley -- 212 B.C. Archimedes' burning mirrors -- 125 B.C. Antikythera mechanism -- 50. Hero's jet engine -- 50. Gears -- 78. St. Elmo's fire -- 1132. Cannon -- 1150. Perpetual motion machine -- 1200. Trebuchet -- 1304. Explaining the rainbow -- 1338. Hourglass -- 1543. Sun-centered universe -- 1596. Mysterium Cosmographicum -- 1600. De Magnete -- 1608. Telescope -- 1609. Kepler's laws of planetary motion -- 1610. Discovery of Saturn's rings -- 1611. Kepler's "Six-cornered Snowflake" -- 1620. Triboluminescence -- 1621. Snell's law of refraction -- 1621. Aurora borealis -- 1638. Acceleration of falling objects -- 1643. Barometer -- 1644. Conservation of momentum -- 1660. Hooke's law of elasticity -- 1660. Von Guericke's electrostatic generator -- 1662. Boyles' gas law -- 1665. Micrographia -- 1669. Amontons' friction -- 1672. Measuring the solar system -- 1672. Newton's prism -- 1673. Tautochrone ramp -- 1687. Newton's laws of motion and gravitation -- 1687. Newton as inspiration -- 1711. Tuning fork -- 1728. Escape velocity -- 1738. Bernoulli's law of fluid dynamics -- 1744. Leyden jar -- 1752. Ben Franklin's kite -- 1761. Black drop effect -- 1766. Bode's law of planetary distances -- 1777. Lischtenberg figures -- 1779. Black eye galaxy -- 1783. Black holes -- 1783. Coulomb's law of electrostatics -- 1787. Charles' gas law -- 1796. Nebular hypothesis -- 1798. Cavendish weighs the earth -- 1800. Battery -- 1801. Wave nature of light -- 1803. Henry's gas law -- 1807. Fourier analysis -- 1808. Atomic theory -- 1811. Avogadro's gas law -- 1814. Fraunhofer lines -- 1814. Laplace's demon -- 1815. Brewster's optics -- 1816. Stethoscope -- 1822. Fourier's law of heat conduction -- 1823. Olbers' paradox -- 1824. Greenhouse effect -- 1824. Carnot engine -- 1825. Ampère's law of electromagnetism -- 1826. Rogue waves -- 1827. Ohm's law of electricity -- 1827. Brownian motion -- 1829. Graham's law of effusion -- 1831. Faraday's laws of induction -- 1834. Soliton -- 1835. Gauss and the magnetic monopole -- 1838. Stellar parallax -- 1839. Fuel cell -- 1840. Poiseuille's law of fluid flow -- 1840. Joule's law of electric heating -- 1841. Anniversary clock -- 1841. Fiber optics -- 1842. Doppler effect -- 1843. Conservation of energy -- 1844. I-beams -- 1845. Kirchhoff's circuit laws -- 1846. Discovery of Neptune -- 1850. Second law of thermodynamics -- 1850. Ice slipperiness -- 1851. Foucault's pendulum -- 1851. Stokes' law of viscosity -- 1852. Gyroscope -- 1852. Stokes' fluorescence -- 1857. Buys-Ballot's weather law -- 1859. Kinetic theory -- 1861. Maxwell's equations -- 1864. Electromagnetic spectrum -- 1866. Surface tension -- 1866. Dynamite -- 1867. Maxwell's demon -- 1868. Discovery of helium -- 1870. Baseball curveball -- 1871. Rayleigh scattering -- 1873. Crookes radiometer -- 1875. Boltzmann's entropy equation -- 1878. Incandescent light bulb -- 1879. Plasma -- 1879. Hall effect -- 1880. Piezoelectric effect -- 1880. War tubas -- 1882. Galvanometer -- 1882. Green flash -- 1887. Michelson-Morley experiment -- 1889. Birth of the kilogram -- 1889. Birth of the meter -- 1890. Eötvös' gravitational gradiometry -- 1891. Tesla coil -- 1892. Thermos -- 1895. X-rays -- 1895. Curie's magnetism law -- 1896. Radioactivity -- 1897. Electron -- 1898. Mass spectrometer -- 1900. Blackbody radiation law -- 1901. Clothoid loop -- 1903. Black light -- 1903. Tsiolkovsky rocket equation -- 1904. Lorentz transformation -- 1905. Special theory of relativity -- 1905. E=mc2 -- 1905. Photoelectric effect -- 1905. Golf ball dimples -- 1905. Third law of thermodynamics -- 1906. Vacuum tube -- 1908. Geiger counter -- 1909. Bremsstrahlung -- 1910. Cosmic rays -- 1911. Superconductivity -- 1911. Atomic nucleus ;Containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries, this book explores such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon. The timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time of quantum resurrection.

Subjects: Physics;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6

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Uncentering the Earth : Copernicus and The revolutions of the heavenly spheres / by Vollmann, William T.(CARDINAL)752349;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-294).

Subjects: Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.; Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543; Astronomy;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5

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The graphic canon. from Heart of darkness to Hemingway to Infinite jest / by Kick, Russell.(CARDINAL)389634;

MARCIVE 8/1/13Includes bibliographical records and index.Collects graphic adaptations of twentieth century literary classics, including "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," "The Metamorphosis," and "Lady Chatterly's Lover."

Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Fiction.; Graphic novels.; Graphic novels in education.; Literature;

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