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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Mirjam Melchers, Theo Janssen, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Rini Coolen, Nacer Barazite, Guillaume-Frédéric de Nassau-Dietz, Kenny Van Hummel, Eduard Van Beinum, Andy Van Der Meyde, Ellen Constans, Anton Sminck Pitloo, Nicky Hofs, Johannes Elias Teijsmann, Cees Van Espen, Jeffrey Leiwakabessy, Johannes Martinus Burgers, Michael Florent Van Langren. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Mirjam Melchers-van Poppel (née le 26 septembre 1975 à Arnhem) est une coureuse cycliste néerlandaise, membre de l'équipe Flexpoint. Spécialiste des courses d'un jour, Mirjam Melchers a occupé la première place mondiale, et remporté plusieurs courses comptant pour la Coupe du monde féminine. Après avoir été titrée championne des Pays-Bas en 2000, elle termine à plusieurs reprises sur le podium de la Coupe du monde. Elle remporte en particulier la Primavera Rosa en 2002, et deux fois le Tour des Flandres féminin, en 2005 et 2006. Le 7 septembre 2006, elle chute au cours de la 3 étape de l'Euregio Tour et se casse le bassin, la hanche et la mâchoire. Mirjam Melchers est mariée à l'ancien sprinter Jean-Paul van Poppel, dirigeant de l'équipe Flexpoint. ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Kapitel: Jan Hendrik Oort, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Madjid Samii, Johan Huizinga, Arnold Geulincx, Charles de L'écluse, Ludolph Van Ceulen, Hugo Donellus, Max Van Der Stoel, Wouter Oudemans, Herman Boerhaave, Paul Ehrenfest, John Dugard, David Cohen, Jacobus Golius, Arent Jan Wensinck, Leo Polak, Karl-Siegbert Rehberg, Ryōgo Kubo, Frits Kalshoven, Roy J. Glauber, Sebald Justinus Brugmans, Pieter Lodewijk Muller, Bernhard Friedrich Albinus, Willem Van Eysinga, Horst Fischer, Johann Veit, Carl Ludwig Blume, Jacob Kistemaker, Johann Karl Ludwig Martin, Pierre Daniel Chantepie de La Saussaye, Paul Hermann, Robert Tijdeman, Govard Bidloo, Liesbeth Zegveld, Willebrord Van Roijen Snell, Philip Van Der Eijk, Arnold Vinnius, Pieter Kooijmans, Thomas Erpenius, Johannes Voet, David Van Royen, Joseph Schacht, Rudi Fuchs, Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Gerhard Noodt, Thomas Aboagye Mensah, Johannes Coccejus, Franciscus Sylvius, Anton Matthäus, Johannes Van Meurs, Ton Koopman, Jan Van Der Hoeven, Pieter Van Musschenbroek, Carel Gabriel Cobet, Hendrik Kraemer, Henri Willy Pleket, Patricia Garfield, Jan J. L. Duyvendak, Hendrik Christoffel Van de Hulst, Bernhardt Jungmann, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Wander Johannes de Haas, Stephan Busch, Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Peter Hotton, Jan Frederik Van Beeck, Willem Jozef Jonckbloet, Jan Jakob Maria de Groot, Michael Jan de Goeje, Marc Van Oostendorp, Johann Joseph Hoffmann, Frédéric L. Bastet, Reimar Schefold, Ferdinand Sassen, Erik Zürcher, Simon Vissering, George Alexander Wilken, Jean Nicolas de Parival, Cornelis Van Der Hoeven, Carel de Maets, Kristofer Schipper. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Dr. Jan Hendrik Oort (28 April 1900 - 5 November 1992) was a Dutch astronomer. He was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy. The Oort cloud of comets bears his name. Oort was born in Franeker, Friesland and studied in Groningen with Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn....http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Professor Lorentz is credited by Einstein with sharing the development of his theory. He is doubtless better able than any other man - except the author himself - to explain this scientific discovery. ... Read more

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Poorly written, and suffers as a result.
This text was clearly written in an era when over wording or complex wording was apparently accepted as the norm.It's brief, and difficult to understand, but not because it needed to be that way.The author clearly doesn't know how to make his understanding comprehendable to the average reader.And the only thing I took away from the reading experience was that light can be manipulated by gravity.WooHoo, tell me something that I couldn't have learned from a cheesy sci-fi movie.

The author refers to space as "ether", in an attempt to explain what it is that the earth and other planetary bodies are moving through.In a more modern age, the idea doesn't make sense because space is empty, and Einstein being the genius he was didn't attempted to account for the "ether" while working on his theory.Lest we enter into a conversation about dark matter which is still a theoretical concept.Dark matter is believed to consume space in solar systems (which we've observed) that are too small to actually be a solar system.The idea being that dark matter while being completely invisible adds mass to these solar systems and thus keeps the planets in that system from flying out.So I suppose one could say that "ether" could be referring to an early concept of dark matter.But again, existence of dark matter is still unproven, and it makes me wonder if the astrophysicists who are observing these solar systems are accounting for the distance.After all, just because a solar system appears stable to an observer on earth, it could actually be far from the truth.Since the distance light travels to reach us is only a reflection of a past event, we cannot assume that what we observe through telescopes is representative of what's actually taking place in these distant solar systems.

Long story short, I think I'll check out the Wikipedia page on Einstein's Theory of Relativity.I'm sure it's somewhat comprehendable.Though to be fair, if it's written like the entry on Schrödinger's cat, I'll probably be just as lost.

Good Entry Point
This book is a nice, quick entry point for people looking to learn about Einstein's famous theory.

That being said, this should not be the only source of info you use to learn about the subject. As previously mentioned, this article is about 90 years old so there is newer material to be read. That being said I never see anything wrong with starting from the beginning and working your way forward.

Good Entry-Point Reading
This very short book is sort of an abstract on Einstein's Theory of Relativity.Whether you're familiar, and especially if you are, about Physics and Nature's Laws of Motion, Gravity, etc...this is a worthwhile read for getting to know Einstein's theory as written by a friend physicist.It describes Einstein's theory and quashes your curiosity on the subject matter.

Short and concise, I picked up a few concepts that I was not truly aware of since grade school or high school...when I was actually enrolled in a science class.For instance, I always thought space is enveloped in a vacuum...meaning no air or nothing at all.It was not after reading this book that I was made re-aware of the gas ether as "light's medium"...or what the upper atmosphere consists of, hence the word ethereal (`not of this world).

Read further and you actually grasp the essence of the theory, said in the simplest possible way from a physicist's point of view.Right now though, I'd like to read more on the subject matter at hand...or perhaps more on Einstein himself.This is just good entry-point reading.

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I have alway love the theory of relativity. This is the basic from and really want to read more on the subject.A must read or at lest know of the theory. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 7625 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The publication of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas marks the return of a reference work that is an essential tool to make the often complex history of what we think accessible to students and general readers. The original 1974 Dictionary of the History of Ideas has long been admired as a landmark document encapsulating the thinking of an era. This thoroughly re-envisioned New Dictionary of the History of Ideas brings fresh intelligence and a global perspective to bear on timeless questions about the individual and society. A distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism ... Read more