Title The dancing universe : from creation myths to the big bang / Marcelo Gleiser.

Publication Info.	Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Edition	First Dartmouth College/UPNE paperback ed.
Description	1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Understanding science and technology series
	Understanding science and technology series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-325) and index.
Summary	Surveying scientists' and philosophers' ideas about the universe over the past twenty-five centuries, a prominent physicist plumbs the relationship between science and mythology, showing how recent theories of the universe's origin recall ancient creation myths.
Contents	Creation myths -- The Greeks -- The sun, the church, and the new astronomy -- The pious heretic -- The triumph of reason -- The world is an intricate machine -- Of things fast -- Of things small -- Inventing universes -- Beginnings -- Epilogue: Dancing with the universe.
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Subject	Cosmology.
	Cosmology.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Gleiser, Marcelo. Dancing universe. First Dartmouth College/UPNE paperback ed. Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press, ©2005 158465466X (OCoLC)58733290
ISBN	9781611683950 (electronic book)
	1611683955 (electronic book)
	158465466X
	9781584654667