The Great ideas today, 1979
By: [editor in chief, Mortimer J. Adler]
Contributors: Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018; Davies, P. C. W.; Sciama, D. W. (Dennis William), 1926-; Gingerich, Owen; Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995; Bell, Daniel; Merriell, Donald; Holton, Gerald James; Sopka, Katherine; Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell), 1861-1927; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784; Mach, Ernst, 1838-1916; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864; Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9780852293645
Subjects: Relativity (Physics); Space and time; Cosmology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I.; title: A symposium on modern cosmology. --; title: Observations in cosmology : the shape of space and the totality of time  -- James E. Gunn; title: The limits of space and time  -- Stephen W. Hawking; title: Order and disorder in the universe  -- P.C.W. Davies; title: Mach's principle, 1879-1979  -- Dennis W. Sciama; title: The aethereal sky : man's search for a plenum universe  -- Owen Gingerich. -- II.; title: Current developments in the arts and sciences. --; title: Einstein's general theory of relativity and cosmology  -- S. Chandrasekhar; title: The social sciences since the Second World War, part one  -- Daniel Bell. -- III.; title: The contemporary status of a great idea. --; title: On the idea of beauty  -- Donald Merriell. -- IV.; title: A special feature. --; title: Great books of science in the twentieth century : physics  -- Gerald Holton and Katherine Sopka. -- V.; title: Reviews of recent books. --; title: The life of the mind  -- Hannah Arendt; title: On human nature  -- Edward O. Wilson. -- VI.; title: Additions to the great books library. --; title: Thucydides  -- J.B. Bury; title: Lives of the poets, selections  -- Samuel Johnson; title: From the life of Cowley --; title: From the life of Milton --; title: From the life of Dryden --; title: From the life of Pope --; title: From the life of Gray --; title: Popular scientific lectures, selections  -- Ernst Mach; title: Why has man two eyes? --; title: On symmetry --; title: The economic nature of physical inquiry --; title: On transformation and adaptation in scientific thought --; title: On the principle of comparison in physics --; title: The part played by accident in invention and discovery --; title: Young Goodman Brown  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Two old men -- Leo Tolstoy.