Wayfarers in the cosmos: the human quest for meaning
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| Beschreibung: | vii, 184 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780824525378 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 3
1. OUR FIRST STEPS, OUR ANCESTORS 9
The Cosmology of the Egyptians, 16
The Viewpoint of the Assyrians and Babylonians, 18
The Approach of the Hebrew Peoples, 20
An Opening to the World of the Greeks, 22
2. THE PATHWAY OF THE GREEKS 24
Greek Thought and the Judaeo-Christian Culture, 30
The Great Greek Philosophers, 32
A Deepening of the Concept of Cosmos, 36
3. TOWARD A CREATOR OF THE CREATED 39
Culture and Its Institutions, 39
Thomas of Aquinas and Aristotle, 43
Problems Remain, 45
So That We Not Forget, 47
4. COPERNICUS AND HIS REVOLUTION 50
Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes: Eternal Ideas and
the World We Sense, 51
The Real Significance of Copernicus, 52
From Pure Mathematics to Physics, 56
New Stars in the Heavens, 57
The Size of the Universe: Brahe Confronts Copernicus, 58
The New Astronomy of Kepler, 62
In Us the Universe Becomes Self-Reflective, 64
Tensions Arise as Modem Science Is Bom, 66
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5. GALILEO AND THE BIRTH PANGS
OF MODERN SCIENCE 71
The Way Is Not Always Straight and Narrow, 73
The Approach of Galileo to His Telescopic Observations, 76
The Fascination of Discovery, 82
Science and Theology in Conflict, 84
Tensions between Traditions and New Discoveries, 89
6. THE AGE OF RATIONALISM:
PRINCIPAL PROTAGONISTS,
DESCARTES AND NEWTON 94
Descartes: A Path Downward from Pure Geometry
to the World of the Senses, 94
Newton and the Unification of Scientific Knowledge, 97
An Exaggerated Rationalism, 102
The Universe in Our Heads, 105
Christianity Says the Universe Has Meaning, 107
7, THE STARS LOOK DOWN ON US III
What Is a Star? Ill
Stars Provide the Elements of Life, 118
Stars Tell Us Where We Are, 120
Families of Stars, 122
Telescopes and the People with Long Eyes, 124
8. A MYRIAD OF ISLAND UNIVERSES 127
From Our Galaxy to the Extragalactic Universe, 127
The Trembling Pillars of Knowledge: Something New
on the Horizon. 131
An Expanding Universe, 134
A Universe of Great Variety, 139
The First Awakenings, 141
Models of the Universe, 144
Our View of the Universe Is Changing, 149
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9. JOURNEY WITHOUT END
The Many Ways of Knowing154
Questions without Answers, 155
The Biblical View of God and of the Universe, 159
The Unification of Our Knowledge, 161
The Mind of God, 165
By Coincidence or Planned? 167
Appendix
B ibliography
Index
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