Entropic Creation

Zusatztext '... an exemplary history of ideas! which taxonomizes and critiques a spectrum of arguments about thermodynamics and cosmology! clearly demarcating newer from older ways of thinking. Particularly fascinating is his account of the staying power of the conservative and theological connotations of thermodynamic cosmology into the Cold War! when it became part of Soviet orthodoxy that laboratory physics could not be applied to the infinite universe. The book will interest scholars of science and religion as well as historians of physics.' British Journal for the History of Science 'Pour découvrir en détail les tenants et les aboutissants de ces débats! rien de tel que le livre érudit! novateur et passionnant d'Helge Kragh. [...] Kragh montre en effet que les liens historiques entre philosophie! religion et science sont complexes. C'est un autre mérite de ce très bon livre.' Pour la Science 'Je ne peux que recommander ce livre riche! original et passionnant! à toute personne qui s'intéresse à l'histoire de la physique! et en particulier celle de la cosmologie! mais aussi aux philosophes et théologiens qui abordent aujourd'hui le débat 'science-foi'.' Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences Informationen zum Autor Helge S. Kragh is a Professor in the History of Science Department at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Klappentext Entropic Creation is the first book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, and the theory proposed by certain Christian scholars during the period 1860 to 1920 that the entropic creation argument is proof of a divine creation of the world. Zusammenfassung Entropic Creation is the first book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, and the theory proposed by certain Christian scholars during the period 1860 to 1920 that the entropic creation argument is proof of a divine creation of the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Some Early Ideas on Decay and Creation; Chapter 3 Thermodynamics and the Heat Death; Chapter 4 The Entropic Creation Argument; Chapter 5 Concepts of the Universe; Chapter 6 Post-1920 Developments; Chapter 7 Shadows from the Past;...

'... an exemplary history of ideas, which taxonomizes and critiques a spectrum of arguments about thermodynamics and cosmology, clearly demarcating newer from older ways of thinking. Particularly fascinating is his account of the staying power of the conservative and theological connotations of thermodynamic cosmology into the Cold War, when it became part of Soviet orthodoxy that laboratory physics could not be applied to the infinite universe. The book will interest scholars of science and religion as well as historians of physics.' British Journal for the History of Science 'Pour découvrir en détail les tenants et les aboutissants de ces débats, rien de tel que le livre érudit, novateur et passionnant d'Helge Kragh. [...] Kragh montre en effet que les liens historiques entre philosophie, religion et science sont complexes. C'est un autre mérite de ce très bon livre.' Pour la Science 'Je ne peux que recommander ce livre riche, original et passionnant, à toute personne qui s'intéresse à l'histoire de la physique, et en particulier celle de la cosmologie, mais aussi aux philosophes et théologiens qui abordent aujourd'hui le débat 'science-foi'.' Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences

Autorentext
Helge S. Kragh is a Professor in the History of Science Department at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Klappentext
Entropic Creation is the first book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, and the theory proposed by certain Christian scholars during the period 1860 to 1920 that the entropic creation argument is proof of a divine creation of the world.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Some Early Ideas on Decay and Creation; Chapter 3 Thermodynamics and the Heat Death; Chapter 4 The Entropic Creation Argument; Chapter 5 Concepts of the Universe; Chapter 6 Post-1920 Developments; Chapter 7 Shadows from the Past;

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