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Cosmology, History, and Theology

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  • © 1977

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Editors:
  1. Wolfgang Yourgrau

    1. University of Denver, Denver, USA

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  2. Allen D. Breck

    1. University of Denver, Denver, USA

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Cosmology: Myth or Science?

    • Hannes Alfvén
    Pages 1-14

  3. Elementary Particles, Universes, and Singularity Surfaces

    • Asim O. Barut
    Pages 15-21

  4. General Relativity and Our View of the Physical Universe

    • Peter G. Bergmann
    Pages 23-28

  5. Quantum Relativity and the Cosmic Observer

    • Patrick A. Heelan
    Pages 29-37

  6. The Expansion of the Universe in the Frame of Conventional General Relativity

    • Jean Heidmann
    Pages 39-57

  7. Models, Laws, and the Universe

    • William H. McCrea
    Pages 59-73

  8. Cosmology and Theology

    • Charles W. Misner
    Pages 75-100

  9. An Observational View of the Cosmos

    • A. A. Penzias
    Pages 101-112

  10. The Generation of Matter and the Conservation of Energy

    • Karl Philberth
    Pages 113-129

  11. On a Chaotic Early Universe

    • Kenji Tomita
    Pages 131-139

  12. Cosmological Implications of Non-Velocity Redshifts—A Tired-Light Mechanism

    • Jean-Pierre Vigier
    Pages 141-157

  13. The Role of Time in Cosmology

    • Gerald J. Whitrow
    Pages 159-177

  14. On Some Cosmological Theories and Constants

    • Wolfgang Yourgrau
    Pages 179-210

  15. John Wyclyf on Time

    • Allen D. Breck
    Pages 211-218

  16. The English Background to the Cosmology of Wright and Herschel

    • Michael Hoskin
    Pages 219-231

  17. The History of Science and the Idea of an Oscillating Universe

    • Stanley L. Jaki
    Pages 233-251

  18. Heaven and Earth—The Relation of the Nebular Hypothesis to Geology

    • Philip Lawrence
    Pages 253-281

  19. Laplace As a Cosmologist

    • Jacques Merleau-Ponty
    Pages 283-291

  20. Cosmology in the Wake of Tycho Brahe’s Astronomy

    • Kristian P. Moesgaard
    Pages 293-305
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It is difficult to doubt that we suffer at present from the manifold aspects of an economic crisis which affects all walks of life. Well, men in almost every epoch in history have maintained that they were going through a crisis which was sup­ posed to be always more grave than any preceding critical phase. Very often those crises were not of an economic nature, but concerned either health, the political structure, the opportunity of acquiring knowledge, and so on. I think that we would consider today that some of those claims that were made in various historical epochs were often exaggerated if viewed from a historical point of view. However, it seems undeniable that we at present are in the middle of a universal economic crisis which has affected almost every facet of our daily life. And yet, the fact that despite these adverse conditions it is still possible to gather scholars from all corners of the world to deal with often sheer theo­ retical and sometimes abstract pursuits is a refutation of any facile pessimism­ it is reassuring to all who wonder where political and social events are taking us. Our salvation may well come from those acts of the mind so character­ istic of the pure scientist and scholar.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Denver, Denver, USA

    Wolfgang Yourgrau, Allen D. Breck

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cosmology, History, and Theology

  • Editors: Wolfgang Yourgrau, Allen D. Breck

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8780-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-8782-8Published: 12 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-8780-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 416

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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