Title:
Theories of the universe : from Babylonian myth to modern science / Milton K. Munitz.
The Library of scientific thought
Free Press paperback
Library of scientific thought.
Main Entry:
Munitz, Milton Karl, 1913- editor.
Publisher:
Free Press,
Publication Date:
[1965]
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
9780029222706
0029222702
Subject:
Cosmogony.
Cosmology.
Cosmogony.
Cosmology.
Series:
The Library of scientific thought
Free Press paperback
Library of scientific thought.
Contents:
First steps in cosmological speculation. -- Enuma Elish, "the Babylonian genesis" / Thorkild Jacobsen ; Pattern of Ionian cosmogony / F.M. Cornford ; The development of the Pythagorean doctrine / Theodor Gomperz ; The nature of the universe / Lucretius ; The classic view of a geocentric finite universe. Timaeus / Plato ; On the heavens ; Metaphysics / Aristotle ; The almagest / Claudius Ptolemy ; Medieval cosmology / J.L.E. Dreyer.
The Copernican revolution and its aftermath. -- Of learned ignorance / Nicolas Cusanus ; On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres / Nicolaus Copernicus ; On the infinite universe and worlds / Giordano Bruno ; Thomas Digges and the infinity of the universe / Francis R. Johnson ; Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems / Galileo Galilei ; On the principal parts of the world / Johannes Kepler ; Fundamental principles of natural philosophy and Four letters to Richard Bentley / Isaac Newton ; Cosmotheoros / Christiaan Huygens ; An original theory of the universe / Thomas Wright ; Universal natural history and theory of the heavens / Immanuel Kant ; Cosmological letters / Johann Heinrich Lambert ; On the construction of the heavens / William Herschel.
Modern theories of the universe. -- Considerations on the universe as a whole / Albert Einstein ; The exploration of space / Edwin P. Hubble ; Relativity and modern theories of the universe / Willem De Sitter ; Spherical space / Arthur S. Eddington ; The primeval atom / Georges LemaŁ itre ; The fundamental concepts of natural philosophy / E.A. Milne ; Geometry as a branch of physics / H.P. Robertson ; Modern cosmology / George Gamow ; Theories of cosmology / Hermann Bondi ; Evolutionary processes in cosmology / D.W. Sciama ; Continuous creation and the expanding universe / Fred Hoyle.
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