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The Evolution of Cosmologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Oliver L. Reiser*
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh

Extract

Man is by nature a creature who is curious. He must have theories and explanations. He wants to understand why there is a universe; and he wants to know what kind of a universe it is that he inhabits. Primitive man has his myths about the origins of things, and the modern scientists have their latest speculations about the universe. And of the making of cosmological hypotheses there is no end.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1952

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References

1 Cf. “The Problem of the Expanding Universe,” by Edwin Hubble, American Scientist, Vol. 30, 1942, 99–115.