Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology

Author:   Helge S. Kragh
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   278
Publication Date:   15 November 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Helge S. Kragh
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138261839


ISBN 10:   1138261831
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   15 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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’... 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


'... 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 decouvrir en detail les tenants et les aboutissants de ces debats, rien de tel que le livre erudit, 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 merite de ce tres bon livre.' Pour la Science 'Je ne peux que recommander ce livre riche, original et passionnant, A toute personne qui s'interesse A l'histoire de la physique, et en particulier celle de la cosmologie, mais aussi aux philosophes et theologiens qui abordent aujourd'hui le debat 'science-foi'.' Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences


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

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