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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... planets could be explained . If we assume that the planets , including the Earth , revolve around the Sun , he said , then all other planets as seen from Earth will exhibit the observed forward and back- ward motion . This heliocentric ...
... planets could be explained . If we assume that the planets , including the Earth , revolve around the Sun , he said , then all other planets as seen from Earth will exhibit the observed forward and back- ward motion . This heliocentric ...
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... planets far beyond the sphere of the Moon . He came reluctantly to the conclusion that because of the motions of comets , the crystalline planetary spheres of Aristotle could not exist . Tycho agreed with Copernicus that the planets ...
... planets far beyond the sphere of the Moon . He came reluctantly to the conclusion that because of the motions of comets , the crystalline planetary spheres of Aristotle could not exist . Tycho agreed with Copernicus that the planets ...
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... planets within the framework of a Sun- centered system . From this work emerged his three famous laws of pla- netary motion that served as stepping stones to the mechanistic universe . The first law , the best known and the only one we ...
... planets within the framework of a Sun- centered system . From this work emerged his three famous laws of pla- netary motion that served as stepping stones to the mechanistic universe . The first law , the best known and the only one we ...
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INTRODUCING THE MASKS | 1 |
WORLDS IN THE MAKING | 15 |
THE HEART DIVINE | 119 |
Urheberrecht | |
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