Preface Ferdinand Gonseth (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ix. 186 pages ; 8vo ; OCLC 561715345 and 1648813; LCCN 50010506 LC QC6 .L3814 1950 Dewey 530.1 green cloth, no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels ; pocket ; ownership stamp of Edward William Girard (1930-2020), a Boeing engineer and Rockwell Missile Systems Division operational analysis manager that served in the Navy during the Korean War. He was instrumental in proposing national re-emphasis on maritime strategy in the wake of the Israeli Six-Day War in 1967 and earlier, in 1961, the use of war games to function as pseudo-experiments, producing data for analysis ; Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, and mathematician who made major contributions to cosmology and astrophysics.He was the first to argue that the recession of galaxies is evidence of an expanding universe and to connect the observational Hubble-Lemaître law with the solution to the Einstein field equations in the general theory of relativity for a homogenous and isotropic universe. ; Translation of L'hypothe`se de l'atome primitif ; Contents: The size of space -- Expansion -- Evolution -- Cosmogonic hypothesis -- The primeval atom ; scarce ; stain on front cover ; else G. Book.