Research Catalog

Title

Scanning and sizing the universe and everything in it : playing scales / by Harold Toliver.

Author

Toliver, Harold

Publication

• Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

xii, 252 pages : illustrations (black and white); 21 cm

Summary

"One of the faults in philosophy generally-even the philosophy of science-is ignoring the extended scale of the natural continuum and putting in its place something Anthropomorphic. This book suggests a means of keeping score that puts common situations, places, topography, and even home ground in the context of that continuum, the whole of atomic matter and its history. As shown here, the discrepancy between normal measurements and what actually exists is similar to that between 'yardsticks' and 'light years'"--

Subject

• Scale (Philosophy)
• Measurement > Philosophy
• Cosmological distances > Measurement
• Measurement
• Cosmological distances

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-252).

Contents

Keeping score -- Seeing is believing -- Yardsticks and light years -- Method meets miscellany -- Enlightenment comes solar powered -- West Africa, meet east Brazil -- Patterns found, forced, and crafted -- Connecting forces and their limits -- Sampling and bundling the universe -- Mountains, rivers, forests -- Home ground -- Don't entirely curb your enthusiasm.

Call Number

JFD 23-1301

ISBN

• 1527592367
• 9781527592360

OCLC

• 1365331751
• 1365331751

Author

Toliver, Harold, author.

Title

Scanning and sizing the universe and everything in it : playing scales / by Harold Toliver.

Publisher

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-252).

Research Call Number

JFD 23-1301