Masks of the UniverseMacmillan Publishing Company, 1985 - 306 Seiten From the animistic world of the primitives of Newton's well-oiled clockwork to the warp and weave of Einsteinian spacetime, Harrison shows how every universe has been the ultimate universe--until a better one came along. Harrison also tours our latest version of the universe, deftly charting the strange, tiny cosmos of subatomic particles and the vast, limitless ocean of stars and galaxies. Throughout, the author enlivens his discussions with the words and thoughts of a dazzling array of renowned scientists, poets, and philosophers both past and present. He includes a number of carefully chosen illustrations--from an engraving of Dante's conception of the universe to a simple space-and-time diagram. ISBN 0-02-948780-3: $18.95. |
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... infinite and every- where , led Nicholas of Cusa to the conclusion that the created universe was correspondingly infinite and its center everywhere . Wherever one stood in the universe , the stars would spread out much the same in all ...
... infinite and every- where , led Nicholas of Cusa to the conclusion that the created universe was correspondingly infinite and its center everywhere . Wherever one stood in the universe , the stars would spread out much the same in all ...
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... infinite space , it could never convene into one mass ; but some of it would convene into one mass and some into another , so as to make an infinite number of great masses , scattered at great distances from one another throughout all ...
... infinite space , it could never convene into one mass ; but some of it would convene into one mass and some into another , so as to make an infinite number of great masses , scattered at great distances from one another throughout all ...
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... infinite , and hence proved that God who had created the universe must be infinite also . Thus the Newtonians paid back their debt . Gravity , derivative from the notion of pervasive theistic spirit , clearly demonstrated that the uni ...
... infinite , and hence proved that God who had created the universe must be infinite also . Thus the Newtonians paid back their debt . Gravity , derivative from the notion of pervasive theistic spirit , clearly demonstrated that the uni ...
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INTRODUCING THE MASKS | 1 |
WORLDS IN THE MAKING | 15 |
THE HEART DIVINE | 119 |
Urheberrecht | |
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