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Masks of the Universe - Changing Ideas on the Nature of the Cosmos (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Masks of the Universe - Changing Ideas on the Nature of the Cosmos (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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In Masks of the Universe, Edward Harrison brings together
fundamental scientific, philosophical and religious issues in
cosmology and raises thought provoking questions. Philosophical
issues dominated cosmology in the ancient world. Theological issues
ranked foremost in the Middle Ages; astronomy and the physical
sciences have taken over in more recent times. Yet every attempt to
grasp the true nature of the universe creates a new "mask," People
have always pitied the universes of their ancestors, believing that
their generation has at last discovered the "real" universe. Do we
now stand at the threshold of knowing everything, or have we
created yet another "mask," doomed to fade like those preceding
ours? Edward Harrison is Adjunct Professor of Astronomy, Steward
Observatory, University of Arizona, and Emeritus Professor of
Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He
worked as a scientist for the Atomic Energy Research Establishment
and the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory in England until 1966
when he became a Five College professor at the University of
Massachusetts and taught at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and
Smith College. He is the author of numerous books, including
Cosmology: the Science of the Universe (Cambridge, 2001)
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