Entropic creation : religious contexts of thermodynamics and cosmology / / Helge S. Kragh
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| Autore: |
Kragh Helge <1944->
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| Titolo: |
Entropic creation : religious contexts of thermodynamics and cosmology / / Helge S. Kragh
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| Pubblicazione: | Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 261.7/65 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-264) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Entropic creation |
| ISBN: | 1-317-14248-9 |
| 1-315-57995-2 | |
| 1-317-14247-0 | |
| 1-281-33212-7 | |
| 9786611332129 | |
| 0-7546-8256-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815821003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945.