The Cosmos: A Historical Perspective (Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in Science)

by Craig G . Fraser (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $105.26

  Provides an introduction to how humans have conceived of the universe throughout history and the ideas that have led to our understanding of the cosmos. This book examines: the Scientific Revolution; nineteenth-century physics and chemistry; Einstein's Theory of Relativity; and the inflationary universe theory and the possibility of dark energy.