Cosmology: Historical, Literary,Philosophical, Religous and Scientific Perspectives

, by Hetherington,Norriss S.

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ISBN: 9780815309345 | 0815309341
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Copyright: 8/1/1993

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Preface

I. Cosmology and Culture

(66)

Introduction Different Cultures, Different Cosmologies

(6)

1. Native American Cosmologies

(16)

Stephen C. McCluskey

2. Chinese Cosmology

(12)

Joseph Needham

Colin Ronan

3. Mesopotamian Cosmology

(16)

F. Rochberg

4. The Presocratics

(16)

Norriss S. Hetherington

II. The Greeks' Geometrical Cosmos

(108)

Introduction To Save the Phenomena

(10)

5. Plato's Cosmology

(16)

Norriss S. Hetherington

6. Aristotle's Cosmology

(10)

Norriss S. Hetherington

7. Ptolemy

105

(42)

James Evans

8. Copernicus

147

(30)

Michel-Pierre Lerner

Jean-Pierre Verdet

James Evans

III. Medieval Cosmology and Literature

177

(50)

Introduction The Aristotelian World View

177

(4)

9. Medieval Cosmology

181

(20)

Edward Grant

10. Dante's Moral Cosmology

201

(16)

Alison Cornish

11. Chaucer

217

(10)

J.D. North

IV. The Scientific Revolution

227

(50)

Introduction A New Physics and a New Cosmology

227

(8)

12. Galileo

235

(4)

Stillman Drake

13. Kepler

239

(24)

W.H. Donahue

14. Newtonian Cosmology

263

(14)

Richard S. Westfall

V. Galaxies: from Speculation to Science

277

(44)

Introduction A Rational Order for the Cosmos

277

(4)

15. William Herschel

281

(8)

Michael J. Crowe

16. Raw Power: Nineteenth-Century Speculum Metal Reflecting Telescopes

289

(12)

Robert W. Smith

17. Spectroscopy

301

(20)

John B. Hearnshaw

VI. The Expanding Universe

321

(86)

Introduction The Great Debate

321

(8)

18. Cosmology 1900-1931

329

(18)

Robert W. Smith

19. Hubble's Cosmology

347

(24)

Norriss S. Hetherington

20. Big Bang Cosmology

371

(20)

Helge Kragh

21. Steady State Theory

391

(16)

Helge Kragh

VII. Particle Physics and Cosmology

407

(94)

Introduction The Ultimate Accelerator

407

(4)

22. The Inflationary Universe

411

(36)

Alan H. Guth

23. Large-Scale Structure and Galaxy Formation

447

(16)

David N. Schramm

24. Cosmic Strings

463

(14)

Alexander Vilenkin

25. Quantum Cosmology and the Creation of the Universe

477

(24)

Jonathan J. Halliwell

VIII. Cosmology and Philosophy

501

(70)

Introduction Thinking about the Universe

501

(4)

26. The Anthropic Principle

505

(10)

Patrick A. Wilson

27. Plurality of Worlds

515

(18)

Steven J. Dick

28. Multiple Universes

533

(14)

George Gale

29. Philosophical Aspects of Cosmology

547

(24)

George Gale

John R. Urani

IX. Cosmology and Religion

571

(36)

Introduction The Copernican Revolution

571

(4)

30. Galileo and the Inquisition

575

(6)

Stillman Drake

31. Cosmology and Religion

581

(26)

Ernan McMullin

Index

607

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Cosmology: Historical, Literary,Philosophical, Religous and Scientific Perspectives

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