Quirky Sides of Scientists Book

Prelude.- Tenacity and Stubbornness: Einstein on Theory and Experiment.- Convergence or Coincidence: Ancient Measurements of the Sun and Moon – How far?.- The Rationality of Simplicity: Copernicus on Planetary Motion.- A Silence of Scientists: Venus' Brightness, Earth's Precession, and the Nebula in Orion.- Progress through Error: Stars and Quasars – How Big, How Far?.- The Data Fits the Model but the Model is Wrong: Kepler and the Structure of the Cosmos.- Art Illustrates Science: Galileo, a Blemished Moon, and a Parabola of Blood.- Ensnared in Circles: Galileo and the Law of Projectile Motion.- Aesthetics and Holism: Newton on Light, Color, and Music.- Missing One’s Own Discovery: Newton and the First Idea of an Artificial Satellite.- A Change of Mind: Newton and the Comet(s?) of 1680 and 1681.- A Well-night Discovery: Einstein and the Expanding Universe.- Postlude.