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Autore |
Kragh Helge <1944-> |
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Entropic creation [[electronic resource] ] : religious contexts of thermodynamics and cosmology / / Helge S. Kragh |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-317-14248-9 |
1-315-57995-2 |
1-317-14247-0 |
1-281-33212-7 |
9786611332129 |
0-7546-8256-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Collana |
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Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cosmology - Religious aspects - History |
Cosmology - Philosophy - History |
Cosmology - History - 19th century |
Cosmology - History - 20th century |
Entropy - Religious aspects |
Entropy - Philosophy |
Second law of thermodynamics |
Creationism |
Religion and science |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-264) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Some early ideas on decay and creation -- Thermodynamics and the heat death -- The entropic creation argument -- Concepts of the universe -- Post-1920 developments -- Shadows from the past. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Entropic Creation is the first book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, and the theory proposed by certain Christian scholars during the period 1860 to 1920 that the entropic creation argument is proof of a divine creation of the world. |
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