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200 10$aConceptions of cosmos$b[electronic resource] $efrom myths to the accelerating universe : a history of cosmology /$fHelge S. Kragh
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2007
215   $a1 online resource (285 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-265) and index.
327   $aContents; Introduction; 1 From myths to the Copernican universe; 1.1 Ancient cosmological thought; 1.2 The Greek cosmos; 1.3 Medieval cosmology; 1.4 The Copernican revolution; 2 The Newtonian era; 2.1 Newton's infinite universe; 2.2 Enlightenment cosmologies; 2.3 Astrophysics and the nebulae; 2.4 Thermodynamics and gravitation; 2.5 The Via Lacta; 3 Foundations of modern cosmology; 3.1 Early relativistic models; 3.2 The expanding universe; 3.3 Towards a finite-age universe; 3.4 Alternative cosmologies; 4 The hot Big Bang; 4.1 Cosmology-a branch of nuclear physics?
327   $a4.2 The steady-state challenge4.3 Relativistic standard cosmology; 5 New horizons; 5.1 Early-universe cosmology; 5.2 Observational surprises; 5.3 Anthropic and other speculations; 5.4 The problem of creation; 5.5 Cosmology in perspective; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
330   $aThis book presents the history of how the universe at large became the object of scientific understanding. Starting with the ancient creation myths, it offers an integrated and comprehensive account of cosmology that covers all major events from Aristotle's Earth-centred cosmos to the recent discovery of the accelearting universe. - ;This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific context. Starting with the creation stories of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the book 
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