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Modern Theoretical and Observational Cosmology - Proceedings of the 2nd Hellenic Cosmology Meeting, held in the National Observatory of Athens , Penteli, 19-20 April 2001 (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
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Modern Theoretical and Observational Cosmology - Proceedings of the 2nd Hellenic Cosmology Meeting, held in the National Observatory of Athens , Penteli, 19-20 April 2001 (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 276
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Manolis Plionis & Spiros Cotsakis plionis@sapfo. astro. noa. gr
skot@aegean. gr Since the dawn of human civilisation natural
phenomena have been subject to observation and investigation by the
humans who initially ascribed to them 'divine' powers. Gods of
'good' and 'evil' werecreatedaccording to the useful- ness or
notofsuch unexplained, atthetime, phenomena. Astheir understanding
of the world developed and deepened, the divine powers, religious
beliefs, su- perstitions and mysticism gave their place to the
knowledge, limited that it may be, of physical reality. However,
many issues have been and still are out of grasp of human
understanding. These issues have always been at the center of
philosophical, theological, and more recently, scientific debate.
It is to us incredible that many of the conclusions concerning the
true scientific explanation of the external world, to which the
ancient Greeks arrived purely on the basis of abstract thought,
came so near to modem scientific ideas and also form the basis of
modem science. We cannot but stand with amazement at the original
thoughts of Archimedes who, among his many extraordinary achieve-
ments in mathematics and physics, calculated (cf. TheSandReckoner)
the mass density of the observable universe and came up with a
figure that is in complete agreement with current estimates coming
from observational cosmology.
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