Ebook Info
- Published: 2007
- Number of pages: 288 pages
- Format: PDF
- File Size: 5.89 MB
- Authors: Helge Kragh
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This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific context. Starting with the creation stories of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the book covers all the major events in theoretical and observational cosmology, from Aristotle’s cosmos over the Copernican revolution to the discovery of the accelerating universe in the late 1990s. It presents cosmology as a subject including scientific as well as non-scientific dimensions, and tells the story of how it developed into a true science of the heavens. Contrary to most other books in the history of cosmology, it offers an integrated account of the development with emphasis on the modern Einsteinian and post-Einsteinian period. Starting in the pre-literary era, it carries the story onwards to the early years of the 21st century.
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⭐This great book deserves a lengthy review which unfortunately I don’t have time to write now.It is a tour de force, even attacking the hype that accompanies popular media presentations.One sees the stumbles, the conflicts, the breakthroughs.The later parts get a bit technical, but it concludes with sensible commentary.
⭐this is a book “print on demand”, poor quality for the same price or more.
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