Engaging the cosmos : astronomy, philosophy, and faith /
Neville Brown.
- Brighton [England] ; Portland, OR : Sussex Academic Press, 2006.
- x, 367 p. ; 24 cm.
- 201/.65 .
Includes bibliogr. references (p. 312-341) and index.
The heavens in history - The age of stone - Hammurabi to Ptolemy - Late antiquity to Copernicus - A Renaissance continuum - The cosmological revolution - The life dimension - Astrobiology - Consciousness - Utopia lost? - An end to nature? - Retreat from reason - Conflict in heaven - A dissolving heritage? - Judaism fulcral - Christ and the humanists - Countervalent Islam - Indian pluralism - Japanese togetherness - To here from eternity - Yearnings for belief - Creative convergence - Fulfilment regained?