From Chaos to Consciousness A Brief History of the Universe
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2015
ISBN-13: 9788740309379
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. The Greeks; title: 1.1. Introduction; title: 1.2. The Birth of Science; title: 1.3. The Greek Worldview; title: 1.4. Islam & Science; title: 2. The Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Reformation; title: 2.1. Late Antiquity and The Early Middle Ages; title: 2.2. The Late Middle Ages; title: 2.3. The Renaissance; title: 2.4. The Reformation; title: 3. The Scientific Revolution; title: 3.1. Nicolaus Copernicus; title: 3.2. Tycho Brahe; title: 3.3. Johannes Kepler; title: 3.4. Galileo Galilei; title: 3.5. Isaac Newton; title: 3.6. The Enlightenment; title: 4. Charles Darwin and Evolution; title: 4.1. The Theory of Evolution; title: 4.2. Fossils; title: 4.3. Punctuated Equilibrium; title: 4.4. The Modern Synthesis; title: 5. Matter and Light; title: 5.1. Atoms; title: 5.2. The Chemical Elements; title: 5.3. Radioactive Decay; title: 5.4. Electromagnetic Radiation; title: 5.5. The Electromagnetic Spectrum; title: 5.6. Spectroscopy; title: 6. The Present Universe; title: 6.1. The Milky Way; title: 6.2. Other Galaxies; title: 6.3. Hubble’s Law; title: 6.4. The Expansion of Space; title: 6.5. The Contents of Galaxies; title: 6.6. The Universe vs The Visible Universe; title: 7. The Big Bang; title: 7.1. George Lemaitre; title: 7.2. George Gamow; title: 7.3. Robert Dicke; title: 7.4. Penzias and Wilson; title: 8. The Early Universe; title: 8.1. Quarks and Leptons; title: 8.2. Protons and Neutrons; title: 8.3. Nuclei; title: 8.4. Atoms; title: 9. Modern Cosmology; title: 9.1. WMAP; title: 9.2. Dark Energy; title: 9.3. The Contents of the Universe; title: 9.4. The Geometry of the Universe; title: 9.5. Cosmological Models; title: 10. Stellar Evolution; title: 10.1. The Birth of a Star; title: 10.2. Hydrogen Fusion; title: 10.3. The Deaths of Stars; title: 10.4. Supernovae; title: 11. The Formation of the Earth; title: 11.1. The Solar System; title: 11.2. The Origin of the Solar System; title: 11.3. The Age of the Solar System; title: 11.4. The Geological Evolution of the Earth; title: 12. Biological Evolution; title: 12.1. Chemical Evolution; title: 12.2. Biological Evolution; title: 12.3. Primates; title: 13. Human Evolution; title: 13.1. Lucy; title: 13.2. The Earliest Hominids; title: 13.3. Australopithecines; title: 13.4. Homo habilis; title: 13.5. Homo erectus; title: 13.6. Homo neanderthalensis; title: 13.7. Homo sapiens; title: 14. Consciousness; title: 14.1. The Human Brain; title: 14.2. The Mind-Body Problem; title: 14.3. How Does the Brain Think?; title: 14.4. The Evolution of Consciousness