Theories of the universe ; from Babylonian myth to modern science / Milton K. Munitz, ed.

Contributor Munitz, Milton K. (Milton Karl), 1913-1995, ed.

Imprint:Glencoe, IL : Free Press, [1957]

Description437 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.

Note: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 / Aristotle -- 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 indefinite universe and worlds / Giordano Bruno -- Thomas Diggers 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 / Isaac Newton -- Four letters to Richard Bentley / Isaac Newton -- Cosmostheoros / 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 / Geoerges 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 Bondii -- Evolutionary processes in cosmology / D.W.Sciama -- Continuous creation and the expanding universe / Fred Hoyle.

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