The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern CosmologyClarendon Press, 1965 - 436 síður |
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Síða vii
... CHAPTER 2. COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE NEWTONIAN THEORY OF GRAVITATION 1. Seeliger's and Neumann's objections to a Newtonian infinite 2. Charlier's hierarchic hypothesis CHAPTER 3. FIELD THEORIES AND THE WISH TO RE- PHRASE ...
... CHAPTER 2. COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE NEWTONIAN THEORY OF GRAVITATION 1. Seeliger's and Neumann's objections to a Newtonian infinite 2. Charlier's hierarchic hypothesis CHAPTER 3. FIELD THEORIES AND THE WISH TO RE- PHRASE ...
Síða viii
... CHAPTER 7. THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE : THE ASTRO- 1. The K - term and Hubble's Law 2. Minor revision of the recession factor 142 142 145 CHAPTER 8 . KINEMATIC RELATIVITY AND THE REVIVAL OF NEWTONIAN COSMOLOGY 149 5. The relatively ...
... CHAPTER 7. THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE : THE ASTRO- 1. The K - term and Hubble's Law 2. Minor revision of the recession factor 142 142 145 CHAPTER 8 . KINEMATIC RELATIVITY AND THE REVIVAL OF NEWTONIAN COSMOLOGY 149 5. The relatively ...
Síða ix
... CHAPTER 12 . ' FACT ' AND THE ' UNIVERSE ' 265 1. Basic objects 2. Fact 3. Objectivity and the uniqueness of the universe 265 268 271 CHAPTER 13. THE ELEMENT OF CONVENTION IN COSMOLOGY AND SCIENCE 276 1. ' Conventionalism ' : an ...
... CHAPTER 12 . ' FACT ' AND THE ' UNIVERSE ' 265 1. Basic objects 2. Fact 3. Objectivity and the uniqueness of the universe 265 268 271 CHAPTER 13. THE ELEMENT OF CONVENTION IN COSMOLOGY AND SCIENCE 276 1. ' Conventionalism ' : an ...
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COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH | 16 |
FIELD THEORIES AND THE WISH TO | 24 |
The Le SageThomson explanation of gravitation | 38 |
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The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern Cosmology John David North Engin sýnishorn í boði - 1965 |
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