The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern CosmologyClarendon Press, 1965 - 436 síður |
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... space is elliptic.22 This was thought to be satisfactory in that it was not incompatible with an earlier cosmological claim by Seeliger that there are 4 × 107 visible stars in a space of diameter 108 a.u. Schwarzschild's last argument ...
... space is elliptic.22 This was thought to be satisfactory in that it was not incompatible with an earlier cosmological claim by Seeliger that there are 4 × 107 visible stars in a space of diameter 108 a.u. Schwarzschild's last argument ...
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... space . It does not pronounce on the nature of space in any obvious sense , although for a theory accepting it the Newton- Euler account is made redundant . But the fact that Einstein laid down a connexion between matter and what he ...
... space . It does not pronounce on the nature of space in any obvious sense , although for a theory accepting it the Newton- Euler account is made redundant . But the fact that Einstein laid down a connexion between matter and what he ...
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... space , and in particular to Jeans's picture of galaxies as ' mere straws floating in the stream of space ' . On the other hand , he can scarcely be classed with Leibniz , for he frequently speaks of ' embedding events in Euclidean space ...
... space , and in particular to Jeans's picture of galaxies as ' mere straws floating in the stream of space ' . On the other hand , he can scarcely be classed with Leibniz , for he frequently speaks of ' embedding events in Euclidean space ...
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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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