Cosmology: Historical, Literary, Philosophical, Religious, and Scientific Perspectives Book

	Preface
I	Cosmology and Culture
	Introduction: Different Cultures, Different Cosmologies	3
1	Native American Cosmologies	9
2	Chinese Cosmology	25
3	Mesopotamian Cosmology	37
4	The Presocratics	53
II	The Greek's Geometrical Cosmos
	Introduction: To Save the Phenomena	69
5	Plato's Cosmology	79
6	Aristotle's Cosmology	95
7	Ptolemy	105
8	Copernicus	147
III	Medieval Cosmology and Literature
	Introduction: The Aristotelian World View	177
9	Medieval Cosmology	181
10	Dante's Moral Cosmology	201
11	Chaucer	217
IV	The Scientific Revolution
	Introduction: A New Physics and a New Cosmology	227
12	Galileo	235
13	Kepler	239
14	Newtonian Cosmology	263
V	Galaxies: from Speculation to Science
	Introduction: A Rational Order for the Cosmos	277
15	William Herschel	281
16	Raw Power: Nineteenth-Century Speculum Metal Reflecting Telescopes	289
17	Spectroscopy	301
VI	The Expanding Universe
	Introduction: The Great Debate	321
18	Cosmology 1900-1931	329
19	Hubble's Cosmology	347
20	Big Bang Cosmology	371
21	Steady State Theory	391
VII	Particle Physics and Cosmology
	Introduction: The Ultimate Accelerator	407
22	The Inflationary Universe	411
23	Large-Scale Structure and Galaxy Formation	447
24	Cosmic Strings	463
25	Quantum Cosmology and the Creation of the Universe	477
VIII	Cosmology and Philosophy
	Introduction: Thinking about the Universe	501
26	The Anthropic Principle	505
27	Plurality of Worlds	515
28	Multiple Universes	533
29	Philosophical Aspects of Cosmology	547
IX	Cosmology and Religion
	Introduction: The Copernican Revolution	571
30	Galileo and the Inquisition	575
31	Cosmology and Religion	581
	Index	607