Theories of the universe : from Babylonian myth to modern science /
| Основен автор: | Munitz, Milton Karl, 1913- (ed.) |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Glencoe, Ill.,
Free Press,
[1957].
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| Серия: |
Library of scientific thought.
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| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Theories of the universe. |
Съдържание:
- 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 ; 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 Lemaître
- 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.