The cosmos
Subtitle: a historical perspective
By: Craig G. Fraser
Series: Greenwood guides to great ideas in science; Greenwood guides to great ideas in science
Publisher: Greenwood Press; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780313026720
Subjects: Cosmology; History; Ancient Astronomy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-171) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007. Available via the World Wide Web. Access is limited to subscribers of ebooks.greenwood.com.
Table of contents: title: Babylonian and Chinese astronomy and cosmology; title: Greek astronomy and cosmology; title: Cosmology from Islam to Copernicus; title: Cosmology from Brahe to Newton; title: Stellar astronomy : the universe beyond the solar system; title: A universe of galaxies : the triumph of the island-universe theory; title: The expansion of the universe; title: From universal expansion to the big bang; title: The big bang universe : from 1965 to the twenty-first century.