The Oxford handbook of the history of modern cosmology / edited by Helge Kragh and Malcolm S. Longair.
Scientific and popular literature on modern cosmology is very extensive; however, scholarly works on the historical development of cosmology are few and scattered. This handbook offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of cosmology from the late nineteenth century to the early...
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| Other title: | Handbook of the history of modern cosmology. History of modern cosmology. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Cosmological Theories Before and Without Einstein / Helge Kragh
- Observational and Astrophysical Cosmology: 1980 to 2018 / Malcolm S. Longair
- Inflation, Dark Matter and Dark Energy / Malcolm S. Longair, Chris Smeenk
- Stranger Things: Multiverse, String Cosmology, Physical Eschatology / Milan M. Ćirković
- Philosophical Aspects of Cosmology / Chris Smeenk
- Observations and the Universe / Robert W. Smith
- Relativistic Models and the Expanding Universe / Matteo Realdi
- Alternative Cosmological Theories / Helge Kragh
- Steady-State Theory and the Cosmological Controversy / Helge Kragh
- Observational and Astrophysical Cosmology: 1940 to 1980 / Malcolm S. Longair
- Relativistic astrophysics and cosmology / Malcolm S. Longair
- The Cosmic Microwave Background: From Discovery to Precision Cosmology / R. Bruce Partridge
- Space science and technological progress: testing theories of relativistic gravity and cosmology during the Cold War / Silvia De Bianchi.