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Theories of the universe from Babylonian myth to modern science

Milton Karl Munitz 1913- editor

New York Free Press 1965

Localização: FEA - Fac. Econ. Adm. Contab. e Atuária  ACERVO DELFIM NETTO  (A34.7.23 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Theories of the universe from Babylonian myth to modern science
  • Autor: Milton Karl Munitz 1913- editor
  • Assuntos: Cosmogony; Cosmology; COSMOLOGIA (FILOSOFIA)
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-432) and index
  • Descrição: 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 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.
  • Títulos relacionados: Série:Free Press paperback Library of scientific thought
  • Editor: New York Free Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 1965
  • Formato: 437 pages illustrations 21 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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