Cosmology, history, and theology / [print]
edited by Wolfgang Yourgrau, Allen D. Breck ; contributors, Hannes O. Alfven ... [and others.
- New York : Plenum Press, (c)1977.
- xvi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
"Based on the third international colloquium held at the University of Denver, November 5-8, 1974."
Cosmology: myth or science Elementary particles, universes, and singularity surfaces General relativity and our view of the physical universe Quantum relativity and the cosmic observer The expansion of the universe in the frame of conventional general relativity Models, laws, and the universe Cosmology and theology An observational view of the cosmos The generation of matter and the conservation of energy On a chaotic early universe Cosmological implications of non-velocity redshifts -a tired-light mechanism The role of time in cosmology On some cosmological theories and constants John Wyclyf on time The English background to the cosmology of Wright and Herschel The history of science and the idea of an oscillating universe Heaven and earth -the relation of the nebular hypothesis to geology Laplace as a cosmologist Cosmology in the wake of Tycho Brahe's astronomy Chronology and the age of the world Cosmic order and human disorder Basic Christian assumptions about the cosmos Cosmos and creation Creation and redemption An English translation of the third part of Kant's Universal natural history and theory of the heavens Hannes Alfven -- Asim O. Barut -- Peter G. Bergmann -- Patrick A. Heelan -- Jean Heidmann -- William H. McCrea -- Charles W. Misner -- Arno A. Penzias -- Karl Philberth -- Kenji Tomita -- Jean-Pierre Vigier -- Gerald J. Whitrow -- Wolfgang Yourgrau -- Allen D. Breck -- Michael Hoskin -- Stanley L. Jaki -- Philip Lawrence -- Jacques Merleau-Ponty -- Kristian P. Moesgaard -- John D. North -- Robert S. Cohen -- Philip G. Hefner -- Arthur Peacocke -- David W. Peat -- Stanley L. Jaki.