Cosmology

Historical, Literary,Philosophical, Religous and Scientific Perspectives
Herausgeber: Hetherington, Norriss S.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a collection of contributions examining cosmology from multiple perspectives. It presents articles on traditional Native American and Chinese cosmologies and traces the historical roots of western cosmology from Mesopotamia and pre-Socratic Greece to medieval cosmology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 644
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9780815309345
• ISBN-10: 0815309341
• Artikelnr.: 21896783

Autorenporträt

Norriss S. Hetherington

Inhaltsangabe

I: Cosmology and Culture 1. Native American Cosmologies 2. Chinese
Cosmology 3. Mesopotamian Cosmology 4. The Presocratics II: The Greeks'
Geometrical Cosmos 5. Plato's Cosmology 6. Aristotle's Cosmology 7. Ptolemy
8. Copernicus III: Medieval Cosmology and Literature 9. Medieval Cosmology
10. Dante's Moral Cosmology 11. Chaucer IV: The Scientific Revolution 12.
Galileo 13. Kepler 14. Newtonian Cosmology V: Galaxies: from Speculation to
Science 15. William Herschel 16. Raw Power: Nineteenth-Century Speculum
Metal Reflecting Telescopes 17. Spectroscopy VI: The Expanding Universe 18.
Cosmology 1900-1931 19. Hubble's Cosmology 20. Big Bang Cosmology 21.
Steady State Theory VII: Particle Physics and Cosmology 22. The
Inflationary Universe 23. Large-Scale Structure and Galaxy Formation 24.
Cosmic Strings 25. Quantum Cosmology and the Creation the Universe VIII:
Cosmology and Philosophy 26. The Anthropic Principle 27. Plurality of
Worlds 28. Multiple Universes 29. Philosophical Aspects of Cosmology IX:
Cosmology and Religion 30. Galileo and the Inquisition 31. Cosmology and
Religion