Cosmology, history, and theology / edited by Wolfgang Yourgrau, Allen D. Breck ; contributors, Hannes O. Alfven ... [and others. [print]

"Based on the third international colloquium held at the University of Denver, November 5-8, 1974."

Cosmology: myth or science Hannes Alfven -- Elementary particles, universes, and singularity surfaces Asim O. Barut -- General relativity and our view of the physical universe Peter G. Bergmann -- Quantum relativity and the cosmic observer Patrick A. Heelan -- The expansion of the universe in the frame of conventional general relativity Jean Heidmann -- Models, laws, and the universe William H. McCrea -- Cosmology and theology Charles W. Misner -- An observational view of the cosmos Arno A. Penzias -- The generation of matter and the conservation of energy Karl Philberth -- On a chaotic early universe Kenji Tomita -- Cosmological implications of non-velocity redshifts -a tired-light mechanism Jean-Pierre Vigier -- The role of time in cosmology Gerald J. Whitrow -- On some cosmological theories and constants Wolfgang Yourgrau -- John Wyclyf on time Allen D. Breck -- The English background to the cosmology of Wright and Herschel Michael Hoskin -- The history of science and the idea of an oscillating universe Stanley L. Jaki -- Heaven and earth -the relation of the nebular hypothesis to geology Philip Lawrence -- Laplace as a cosmologist Jacques Merleau-Ponty -- Cosmology in the wake of Tycho Brahe's astronomy Kristian P. Moesgaard -- Chronology and the age of the world John D. North -- Cosmic order and human disorder Robert S. Cohen -- Basic Christian assumptions about the cosmos Philip G. Hefner -- Cosmos and creation Arthur Peacocke -- Creation and redemption David W. Peat -- An English translation of the third part of Kant's Universal natural history and theory of the heavens Stanley L. Jaki.

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