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Georges Lemaître : Life, Science and Legacy
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- Creator
- Rodney D. Holder, Simon Mitton, Editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Heidelberg : Springer, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xii, 201 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9783642322532, 3642322530, 9783642322549
- OCLC
- ocn802321821
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Georges Lemaître: A brief introduction to his science, his theology, and his impact -- Georges Lemaître: the Priest who Invented the Big Bang -- 'The wildest speculation of all': Lemaître and the primeval-atom universe -- Lemaître and Hoyle: Contrasting Characters in Science and Religion -- Lemaître, the Big Bang and the Quantum Universe -- Lemaître: Science and Religion -- Aquinas and Contemporary Cosmology: Creation and Beginnings -- Georges Lemaître and Stigler's Law of Eponymy. -- Building on the Legacy of Georges Lemaître in Contemporary Cosmology -- Multiple Reasons for a Multiverse -- Multiverses, science, and ultimate causation -- Lemaître's Prescience: The Beginning and End of the Cosmos -- Modern Cosmology and Anthropic Fine-tuning: Three approaches -- Some Theological Reflections