The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern CosmologyClarendon Press, 1965 - 436 síður |
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... cosmology will inevitably encounter the question : Is cosmology not an ordinary science ? With one or two minor qualifi- cations , the answer given here is that cosmology is an ordinary science . Cosmologists differ amongst themselves ...
... cosmology will inevitably encounter the question : Is cosmology not an ordinary science ? With one or two minor qualifi- cations , the answer given here is that cosmology is an ordinary science . Cosmologists differ amongst themselves ...
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A History of Modern Cosmology John David North. CHAPTER 1 NINETEENTH - CENTURY ASTRONOMY : THE NEBULAE IT HAS been said that the Greeks found the universe a mystery and left it a polis . If cosmologists can be said to agree on any single ...
A History of Modern Cosmology John David North. CHAPTER 1 NINETEENTH - CENTURY ASTRONOMY : THE NEBULAE IT HAS been said that the Greeks found the universe a mystery and left it a polis . If cosmologists can be said to agree on any single ...
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... cosmologist's conception of the infinite , it is clear that , no less than in mathematics , one must decide between discarding the idea altogether and discarding some of the usages of everyday speech . Cosmologists have taken the second ...
... cosmologist's conception of the infinite , it is clear that , no less than in mathematics , one must decide between discarding the idea altogether and discarding some of the usages of everyday speech . Cosmologists have taken the second ...
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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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