TY - BOOK AU - Gunn,J.E. AU - Hawking,Stephen AU - Davies,P.C.W. AU - Sciama, D. W AU - Gingerich, Owen AU - Chandrasekhar,S. AU - Bell, Daniel AU - Merriell,Donald AU - Holton,Gerald James AU - Sopka,Katherine AU - Adler,Mortimer Jerome AU - Bury,J.B. AU - Johnson, Samuel AU - Mach, Ernst AU - Hawthorne,Nathaniel AU - Tolstoy,Leo ED - Encyclopaedia Britannica TI - The great ideas today, 1979 SN - 085229364X AV - AC 1 G742.1979 PY - 1979/// CY - Chicago PB - Encyclopaedia Britannica KW - Cosmology KW - Cosmología KW - Relativity (Physics) KW - Relatividad (Física) KW - Space and time KW - Espacio y tiempo N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas; I; A symposium on modern cosmology --; Observations in cosmology : the shape of space and the totality of time; James E. Gunn --; The limits of space and time; Stephen W. Hawking --; Order and disorder in the universe; P.C.W. Davies --; Mach's principle, 1879-1979; Dennis W. Sciama --; The aethereal sky : man's search for a plenum universe; Owen Gingerich --; II; Current developments in the arts and sciences --; Einstein's general theory of relativity and cosmology; S. Chandrasekhar --; The social sciences since the Second World War, part one; Daniel Bell --; III; The contemporary status of a great idea --; On the idea of beauty; Donald Merriell --; IV; A special feature --; Great books of science in the twentieth century : physics; Gerald Holton and Katherine Sopka --; V; Reviews of recent books --; The life of the mind; Hannah Arendt --; On human nature; Edward O. Wilson --; VI; Additions to the great books library --; Thucydides; J.B. Bury --; Lives of the poets, selections; Samuel Johnson --; From the life of Cowley --; From the life of Milton --; From the life of Dryden --; From the life of Pope --; From the life of Gray --; Popular scientific lectures, selections; Ernst Mach --; Why has man two eyes? --; On symmetry --; The economic nature of physical inquiry --; On transformation and adaptation in scientific thought --; On the principle of comparison in physics --; The part played by accident in invention and discovery --; Young Goodman Brown; Nathaniel Hawthorne --; Two old men; Leo Tolstoy ER -