| Description |
xvi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Cosmology: myth or science / Hannes Alfvén -- Elementary particles, universes, and singularity surfaces / Asim O. Barut -- General relativity and our view of the physical universe / Peter G. Bergmann -- Quantum relativity and the cosmic observer / Patrick A. Heelan -- The expansion of the universe in the frame of conventional general relativity / Jean Heidmann -- Models, laws, and the universe / William H. McCrea -- Cosmology and theology / Charles W. Misner -- An observational view of the cosmos / Arno A. Penzias -- The generation of matter and the conservation of energy / Karl Philberth -- On a chaotic early universe / Kenji Tomita -- Cosmological implications of non-velocity redshifts -a tired-light mechanism / Jean-Pierre Vigier -- The role of time in cosmology / Gerald J. Whitrow -- On some cosmological theories and constants / Wolfgang Yourgrau -- John Wyclyf on time / Allen D. Breck -- The English background to the cosmology of Wright and Herschel / Michael Hoskin -- The history of science and the idea of an oscillating universe / Stanley L. Jaki -- Heaven and earth -the relation of the nebular hypothesis to geology / Philip Lawrence -- Laplace as a cosmologist / Jacques Merleau-Ponty -- Cosmology in the wake of Tycho Brahe's astronomy / Kristian P. Moesgaard -- Chronology and the age of the world / John D. North -- Cosmic order and human disorder / Robert S. Cohen -- Basic Christian assumptions about the cosmos / Philip G. Hefner -- Cosmos and creation / Arthur Peacocke -- Creation and redemption / David W. Peat -- Appendix An English translation of the third part of Kant's Universal natural history and theory of the heavens / Stanley L. Jaki |
| Notes |
"Based on the third international colloquium held at the University of Denver, November 5-8, 1974." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Astronomy -- History -- Congresses.
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Astronomy -- History.
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Cosmology -- Congresses.
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Cosmology.
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Theology -- Congresses.
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Theology.
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Astronomy -- history.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Alfvén, Hannes, 1908-1995.
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Breck, Allen duPont.
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Yourgrau, Wolfgang.
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University of Denver.
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| LC no. |
76054269 |
| ISBN |
0306309408 |
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