| Description |
xxxiii, 556 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Helix books
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
"A Helix anthology." |
| Contents |
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 / Artistotle -- He supposes the earth to revolve / Aristarchus and Archimedes -- A geometrical argument / Cicero -- Turning the Universe upside down / Plutarch -- The peculiar nature of the Universe / Claudius Ptolemy -- The weakness of the hypotheses / Proclus -- Their peculiar behavior confounds mortal's minds / Martianus Capella and Boethius -- We consider time a thing created / Moses Maimonides -- From this point hang the heavens / Dante Alighieri -- If a 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 -- 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 Brache -- This little dark star wherein we live / Thomas Digges -- Innumerable suns and an infinite number of earths / Girodano Bruno -- Neither known nor observed by anyone before / Galileo Galilei -- Galileo and the geometrization of astronomical space / Samuel Edgerton -- The 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 moor / 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 / Christian Huygens -- 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 surprising zone of light / Thomas Wright of Durham -- How fortunate is this globe! / Immanuel Kant -- To become adequately Coperican / Johann Heinrich Lambert -- Laboratories of the universe / William Hershel -- 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 Fairfax Somerville -- The infailing connection and course of events / Alexander von Humboldt -- The primordial particle / Edgar Allan Poe -- The shadow! The shadow! / Maria Mitchell Huggins -- Unraveled starlight / William Huggins -- Astronomy still young / Agnes Mary Clerke -- The peculiar interest of Mars / Giovanni Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell -- Cosmical evolution / G.H. Darwin -- 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 Feynmann -- Spacetime tells matter how to move / John Archibald Wheeler -- The architecture of the celestial mansions / Annie Jump Cannon -- The quickening influence of the universe / Celia 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 Edward Lamaitre -- This Big Bang idea / Fred Hoyle -- 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 -- A very lumpy universe / George Smoot -- A cosmic archipelago / Martin Rees -- Cosmological natural selection / Lee Smolin -- The ultimate 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. |
| Subject |
Cosmology -- History.
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Physics -- Philosophy.
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| Added Author |
Danielson, Dennis Richard, 1949-
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| ISBN |
0738202479 |
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9780738202471 |
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