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Using the pendulum as a central theme both literally and figuratively, Beech summarizes the history of science with some snippets of the physical principles and some of the mathematical details that an undergraduate student of science or mathematics would find inspiring. He covers the pendulum swings, making time, the shape of the Earth, weighing the Earth, all in a spin, and from beauty to resonance to chaos. More specific topics include the conservation of energy and the ballistic pendulum, celestial time, a map without wrinkles, the weak equivalence principle, a letter from Newton, Moon drift and the end of all things, a brief aside on Planck's oscillators, and the double compound pendulum. Brown Walker Press is a division of Dissertation.com and Universal Publishers (Boca Raton, Florida). Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
