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437 pages : 25 cm Includes bibliographical references and index First steps in cosmological speculation. Enuma Elish -- "the Babylonian genesis" / Thorkild Jacobsen -- Pattern of Ionian cosmogony / F.M. Cornford -- The development of the Pythagorean doctrine / Theodor Gomperz -- The nature of the universe / Lucretius -- The classic view of a geocentric finite universe. Timaeus / Plato -- On the heavens ; Metaphysics / Aristotle -- The almagest / Claudius Ptolemy -- Medieval cosmology / J.L.E. Dreyer -- The Copernican revolution and its aftermath. Of learned ignorance / Nicolas Cusanus -- On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres / Nicolaus Copernicus -- On the infinite universe and worlds / Giordano Bruno -- Thomas Digges and the infinity of the universe / Francis R. Johnson -- Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems / Galileo Galilei -- On the principal parts of the world / Johannes Kepler -- Fundamental principles of natural philosophy ; Four letters to Richard Bentley / Isaac Newton -- Cosmotheoros / Christiaan Huygens -- An original theory of the universe / Thomas Wright -- Universal natural history and theory of the heavens / Immanuel Kant -- Cosmological letters / Jo

Author

Milton Karl Munitz

Publisher

Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press

Published

1957

Language

EN

Subjects

Science, Art, Astronomy

Updated

2026-03-24