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Cosmology Historical, Literary,Philosophical, Religous and Scientific Perspectives

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ISBN-10: 0815309341

ISBN-13: 9780815309345

Edition: 1993

Authors: Norriss S. Hetherington

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List price: $103.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 8/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 644
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Preface
Cosmology and Culture
Introduction: Different Cultures, Different Cosmologies
Native American Cosmologies
Chinese Cosmology
Mesopotamian Cosmology
The Presocratics
The Greek's Geometrical Cosmos
Introduction: To Save the Phenomena
Plato's Cosmology
Aristotle's Cosmology
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Medieval Cosmology and Literature
Introduction: The Aristotelian World View
Medieval Cosmology
Dante's Moral Cosmology
Chaucer
The Scientific Revolution
Introduction: A New Physics and a New Cosmology
Galileo
Kepler
Newtonian Cosmology
Galaxies: from Speculation to Science
Introduction: A Rational Order for the Cosmos
William Herschel
Raw Power: Nineteenth-Century Speculum Metal Reflecting Telescopes
Spectroscopy
The Expanding Universe
Introduction: The Great Debate
Cosmology 1900-1931
Hubble's Cosmology
Big Bang Cosmology
Steady State Theory
Particle Physics and Cosmology
Introduction: The Ultimate Accelerator
The Inflationary Universe
Large-Scale Structure and Galaxy Formation
Cosmic Strings
Quantum Cosmology and the Creation of the Universe
Cosmology and Philosophy
Introduction: Thinking about the Universe
The Anthropic Principle
Plurality of Worlds
Multiple Universes
Philosophical Aspects of Cosmology
Cosmology and Religion
Introduction: The Copernican Revolution
Galileo and the Inquisition
Cosmology and Religion
Index