The book of the cosmos : imagining the universe from Heraclitus to Hawking /

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Other Authors: Danielson, Dennis Richard, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Pub., c2000.
Series:Helix books
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245 0 4 |a The book of the cosmos :  |b imagining the universe from Heraclitus to Hawking /  |c edited by Dennis Richard Danielson. 
246 3 0 |a Imagining the universe from Heraclitus to Hawking 
246 3 |a Helix anthology :  |b the book of the cosmos 
260 |a Cambridge, Mass. :  |b Perseus Pub.,  |c c2000. 
300 |a xxxiii, 556 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 0 |a Helix books 
500 |a "A Helix anthology." 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Cosmological origins (We have seen but few of his works : Torah, sacred poetry, Apocrypha, New Testament -- Twice into the same river? : Heraclitus and Parmenides -- The things of the universe are not sliced off with a hatchet : Empedocles and Anaxagoras -- Atoms and empty space : Leucippus, Democritus, Epicurus, Lucretius -- The moving image of eternity : Plato -- The potency of place : Aristotle -- He supposes the earth to revolve : Aristarchus and Archimedes -- A geometrical argument : Eratosthenes -- No erratic or pointless movement : Cicero -- Turning the universe upside down : Plutarch) -- 
505 0 |a Ptolemy, middle earth, middle ages (The peculiar nature of the universe : Claudius Ptolemy -- The weakness of the hypotheses : Proclus -- Their peculiar behavior confounds mortals' minds : Martianus Capella and Boethius -- We consider time a thing created : Moses Maimonides -- From this point hang the heavens : Dante Alighieri -- If man were in the sky and could see the earth clearly : Nicole Oresme -- A single universe in which each star influences every other : Nicholas Cusanus) -- Copernicus to Newton (Almost contrary to common sense : Nicholas Copernicus -- The poetic structure of the world : Fernand Hallyn and Thomas Kuhn -- This art unfolds the wisdom of God : John Calvin and Johannes Kepler -- A star never seen before our time : Tycho Brahe -- This little dark star wherein we live : Thomas Digges -- 
505 0 |a Innumerable suns, and an infinite number of earths : Giordano Bruno -- Neither known nor observed by anyone before : Galileo Galilei -- Galileo and the geometrization of astronomical space : Samuel Edgerton -- This boat which is our earth : Johannes Kepler -- The two books of God agree with each other : Tommaso Campanella -- They hoist the earth up and down like a ball : Robert Burton -- A world in the moon : John Wilkins -- A very liquid heaven : Rene Descartes -- The eternal silence of these infinite spaces : Blaise Pascal -- This pendent world : John Milton -- But one little family of the universe : Bernard le Bouvier de Fontenelle and Aphra Behn -- Into the celestial spaces : Isaac Newton -- Discernible ends and final causes : Richard Bentley -- The planetarians, and this small speck of dirt : Christiaan Huygens) -- 
505 0 |a Unfurling Newton's universe (A signal of God : William Derham -- The beautiful pre-established order : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke -- An event so glorious to the Newtonian doctrine of gravity : Edmond Halley and "Astrophilus" -- A voice from the starry heavens : Cotton Mather -- This most suprising zone of light : Thomas Wright of Durham -- How fortunate is this globe! : Immanuel Kant -- To become adequately Copernican : Johann Heinrich Lambert -- Laboratories of the universe : William Herschel -- As certain as the planetary orbits : Pierre Simon Laplace -- The intelligence of the watch-maker : William Paley -- Must we then reject the infinitude of the stars? : H. W. M. Olbers -- The great principle that governs the universe : Mary Farifax Somerville -- 
505 0 |a The unfailing connection and course of events : Alexander von Humboldt -- The primordial particle : Edgar Allan Poe -- The shadow! The shadow! : Maria Mitchell -- Unraveled starlight : William Huggins -- Astronomy still young : Agnes Mary Clerke) -- The universe re-imagined (The peculiar interest of Mars : Giovanni Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell -- Cosmical evolution : G. H. Darwin -- Cosmos without peer and without price : G. K. Chesterton -- Curved space and poetry of the universe : Robert Osserman -- The man in the accelerated chest : Albert Einstein -- It is not true that "all is relative" : Richard Feynman -- Spacetime tells matter how to move : John Archibald Wheeler -- The architecture of the celestial mansions : Annie Jump Cannon -- 
505 0 |a The quickening influence of the universe : Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin -- You have broken Newton's back : George Bernard Shaw -- The realm of the nebulae : Edwin Hubble -- Driven to admit anti-chance : Arthur Eddington -- Did the expansion start from the beginning? : Georges Edouard Limaitre -- This big bang idea : Fred Hoyle) -- Beginnings and ends (Incomprehensible magnitude, unimaginable darkness : Werner Gitt -- That all-but-eternal crimson twilight : Arthur C. Clarke -- The cosmic oasis : Hans Blumenberg -- The very womb of life : James Lovelock -- The urge to trace the history of the universe : Steven Weinberg -- To transform the universe on a cosmological scale : John Barrow and Frank Tipler -- The no boundary condition : Stephen Hawking -- Prisons of light : Kitty Ferguson -- 
505 0 |a A very lumpy universe : George Smoot -- A cosmic archipelago : Martin Rees -- Cosmological natural selection : Lee Smolin -- The ulitmate free lunch : Alan Guth -- Was there a big bang? : David Berlinski -- What we cannot see and yet know must be there : Vera Rubin -- Their extravagant smallness : Freeman Dyson and Brian Greene -- Cosmic dust-bunnies : John S. Lewis -- Mystery at the end of the universe : Paul Davies -- Do the heavens declare? : Owen Gingerich) -- Glossary -- Furthur reading. 
650 0 |a Cosmology  |x History. 
650 0 |a Physics  |x Philosophy. 
700 1 |a Danielson, Dennis Richard,  |d 1949- 
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