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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Language
English
Pages
471

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Subjects
Relativity (Physics), Space and time, Cosmology

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Table of Contents

I.
A symposium on modern cosmology. --
Observations in cosmology : the shape of space and the totality of time -- James E. Gunn
The limits of space and time -- Stephen W. Hawking
Order and disorder in the universe -- P.C.W. Davies
Mach's principle, 1879-1979 -- Dennis W. Sciama
The aethereal sky : man's search for a plenum universe -- Owen Gingerich. -- II.
Current developments in the arts and sciences. --
Einstein's general theory of relativity and cosmology -- S. Chandrasekhar
The social sciences since the Second World War, part one -- Daniel Bell. -- III.
The contemporary status of a great idea. --
On the idea of beauty -- Donald Merriell. -- IV.
A special feature. --
Great books of science in the twentieth century : physics -- Gerald Holton and Katherine Sopka. -- V.
Reviews of recent books. --
The life of the mind -- Hannah Arendt
On human nature -- Edward O. Wilson. -- VI.
Additions to the great books library. --
Thucydides -- J.B. Bury
Lives of the poets, selections -- Samuel Johnson
From the life of Cowley --
From the life of Milton --
From the life of Dryden --
From the life of Pope --
From the life of Gray --
Popular scientific lectures, selections -- Ernst Mach
Why has man two eyes? --
On symmetry --
The economic nature of physical inquiry --
On transformation and adaptation in scientific thought --
On the principle of comparison in physics --
The part played by accident in invention and discovery --
Young Goodman Brown -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Two old men -- Leo Tolstoy.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
909.82
Library of Congress
AY59 .G7 1979

The Physical Object

Pagination
471 pages
Number of pages
471

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27925966M
Internet Archive
greatideastoday10000unse_x5m2
ISBN 10
085229364X
ISBN 13
9780852293645
OCLC/WorldCat
10918232

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