We at least need our thumbs to turn the pages of a book. Here's a good one: "
Atomic and Molecular Structure: The Development of Our Concepts". The preface opens with:
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This book is based on a course given to liberal arts students and other non-science majors at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. It emphasizes how scientists think, rather than what their current theories are.
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Neither your nice old numerologist lady or the author of the paper titled
Synergetics Principles, it wouldn't surprise me if he
were Buckminster Fuller, he had a reputation as a true eccentric, but neither were in actual fact scientific thinkers.
from Synergetics Principles:
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Scientific entry into the present realm of nuclear competence was accomplished with the awkward irrational tools of the centimeter-gram-second (CGS) measurement and the Cartesian XYZ 90-degree coordinate system. But the awkwardness had to be corrected by Planck's constant to produce reliable, usable information.
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I must say there is revealing nationalistic pride that wills to step on the early foundations of those from the mainland of Europe that we still accredit nonetheless with greatness for their contributions. In fact, there is nothing awkward about systems of measurement, imperial
or metric. Even Planck's constant changes with the context wherein it is applied, but it has its own basis for being as does all science right or wrong, I suppose.