Theories of the Universe: From Babylonian Myth to Modern Science

by Thorkild Jacobsen, Francis Macdonald Cornford, Theodor Gomperz

The theoretical physicist shares his latest thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press. Along with eminent colleagues, Hawking extends theoretical frontiers by speculating on the big questions of modern cosmology.

Genres: Science, Astronomy, History

452 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1957

About the author

Thorkild Jacobsen (7 June 1904 – 2 May 1993) was a renowned historian specializing in Assyriology and Sumerian literature. He was one of the foremost scholars on the ancient Near East.

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Harmony of the spheres, dreams of the Pythagoreans, a murmur in universal space, universal fire, citadel of Zeus, hearth of the universe, Plato: the eternal is the intelligible, the planets as the 'instruments of Time' (Timaeus), clusters of stars as the laboratories of the universe, God as Architect.