Masks of the Universe - Softcover

Harrison, Edward Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0020209800 ISBN 13: 9780020209805

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, 1986

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Traces the development of human beings' conceptions of the universe from ancient times to the modern world

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Book Description:

In the ancient world philosophical issues dominated cosmology. In the Middle Ages theological issues ranked foremost. In recent times astronomy and the physical sciences have taken over. Yet every attempt to grasp the true nature of the universe creates a new mask. In every age people have pitied the universes of their ancestors, believing that they have at last discovered the full truth. Do we now stand at the threshold of knowing everything, or have we created yet another mask, doomed to fade like all the rest?

About the Author:

Edward Harrison is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts, and adjunct Professor of Astronomy at the Steward Observatory, University of Arizona.

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