Cosmogenesis
Subtitle: The Growth of Order in the Universe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 21, 1991
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780195069082
First sentence: Around the beginning of the sixth century B.C., in the prosperous trading center of Miletus on the Aegean coast of present-day Turkey, a handful of Greek thinkers made the first recorded efforts to construct a rational or nonmythical account of how order arose in the world.