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Classic examination of the three major subjects at the heart of science: cosmogony, atomic theory, and evolution. Each area features readings that present a continuous story, conveying the excitement of the process of scientific discovery and growth of knowledge from earliest to modern times. 1959 edition. 36 figures. 7 tables.
262) The Science Spell
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His father was a scientist and atheist, his mother a spiritual seeker. As a boy, he sensed magic, even God-in the woods that surrounded their rural New Hampshire home, in the music of the Beatles, and in the mystery of dreams. But how could any of that really be real?
Surely, the science his father believed in told us what was really real: Our sense of having a soul is just chemicals. Our presence in the universe is just the result of impersonal...
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This book examines 100 objects that forever altered what we know and how we think about the cosmos. From an ancient Mayan codex to Sputnik to Skylab and into the twenty-first century, some objects are iconic and some obscure-but all are utterly important.
• The Nebra sky disk (1600 BCE) features the first realistic depiction of the sun, moon, and stars.
• The Lunar Laser Ranging RetroReflector finally showed us how far we are from the moon in...
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Deux anciennes disciplines se retrouvent dans un guide unique faisant autorité, toute première traduction d'un texte classique chinois.
Au 3e siècle AEC, l'état chinois a adopté l'Art de la Prévision et du Positionnement comme orthodoxie impériale. À partir de ce moment-là et jusqu'à son effondrement en 1911, la cour impériale a constamment employé des devins professionnels et approuvé les textes officiels relatifs à leur activité....
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Is your worldview enlightened enough to accommodate both science and God at the same time?
Dr. Michael Guillen, a best-selling author, Emmy award—winning journalist and former physics instructor at Harvard, used to be an Atheist-until science changed his mind. Once of the opinion that people of faith are weak, small-minded folks who just don't understand science, Dr. Guillen ultimately concluded that not only does science itself depend on faith,...
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"Carter Phipps brilliantly expands our understanding of evolution by showing us that a new science is emerging-one that will holistically integrate our understanding of consciousness, cosmology, and evolution."
-Deepak Chopra
Blending cutting-edge ideas with incisive spiritual insights, Evolutionaries is the first popular presentation of an emerging school of thought called "evolutionary spirituality." Carter Phipps, the former executive editor...
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He had science and an Ivy League pedigree-why did he need God? Immersed in his physics studies at Cornell, Tom Rudelius never thought much about God until his brother, a new convert to Christianity, challenged him to explore faith. To placate his twin, he reluctantly began exploring the Bible and the life of Jesus. Seeking proof of God's existence, he found himself in a world of uncertainty, faced with plenty of reasons for both faith and doubt.
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Extrait : "QUAERENS. Vous m'avez promis, Lumen ! de me faire le récit de cette heure étrange, étrange entre toutes, qui suivit votre dernier soupir, et de me raconter comment, par une loi naturelle, quoique si singulière, vous revîtes le passé dans le présent, et pénétrâtes un mystère qui est resté si obscurément caché jusqu'aujourd'hui."
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All beliefs, convictions, assumptions & theories, about the universe & about life are set aside. Evidence for or against a conviction is examined in an easy-to-read format using only Objective Methodology. Stephen Hawking's & Religion's answers to life's Big Questions are systematically appraised. Assume nothing! Use only proven facts! Rank the strengths & levels of evidence. Do not make up evidence to prove a preconceived theory. Use probabilities,...
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"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Cosmology and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers" Michael Werner is a senior research scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He has been the lead scientist for the Spitzer Space Telescope since 1984. He lives in Pasadena, California. Peter Eisenhardt is a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He received NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement...
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Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars, planets and living organisms, human beings and human consciousness came to be. And yet ... we thirst for answers to questions that have haunted humanity from the very beginning. What is our place in the 14-billion-year history of the universe? What roles do we play in Earth's history? How do we connect with the intricate...
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Emergence of the Omniverse (2020) is one important tool of liberation from our presumed status as a prison planet for Souls in an enforced, unconscious reincarnation birth-death cycle that cosmologist Wes Penre and Futurist Webre document, providing us with powerful strategies to exit the false Afterlife/Interlife Reincarnation Matrix into the larger Omniverse. The Omniverse Equation is: Omniverse = Multiverse + Spiritual Dimensions [Intelligent Civilizations...
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Packed with wild art and mind-blowing space facts, this book proves how awesome the universe is-and that space is for everyone.
From astrophysics to rocket science to the future of space exploration, Space Is Cool as F*ck explains everything you thought you'd never understand about the universe in plain-old filthy English. We're talking Big Bang, aliens, black holes, time travel, degenerate astronomers, and all the fundamental things you take for...
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Découvrez toutes les réponses à vos questions sur la météorologie, cette science en constante évolution, utile dans le quotidien de tout un chacun.
Peut-on toucher un arc-en-ciel? Pourquoi le cyclone a-t-il un œil et porte-t-il un nom? Que signifie un ciel rouge à l'aube ou au crépuscule ? Qu'est-ce qu'une aurore boréale? Qui a inventé la rose des vents? À quoi servent les girouettes? Qu'est-ce que le Gulf Stream ? Comment se forment...
277) Rude Astronauts
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Fifteen stories and essays from a modern master of Heinleinian science fiction In Rude Astronauts, Allen Steele presents some of his finest stories-including the Diamondback Jack Trilogy and his first published story, "Live from the Mars Hotel"-along with excerpts of the nonfiction science writing with which he made his name. In Steele's universe, the stars are cold, space is big, and it's the normal people who make things interesting.
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Wakened by the planetary crisis, a minister loses her faith in the church's relevance. Opening a woodland retreat, hosting spiritual, ecology, and cosmological teachers, she discovers a new sacred story of oneness and experiences an invigorating evolution of consciousness. In the first section, Out of the Pulpit and Into the Woods, she tells a story many can relate to.
When invited to step back into the Christian culture, the adventure continues....
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An entertaining page turner that will literally, change how you see the world. This book presents controversial but irrefutable evidence of the earth that we live on. However, we may have fallen into a "Masonic Induced Hypnosis," and this subconsciously makes people angry when any one challenges the "spinning ball" earth model paradigm. After reading this book, you may become fully aware, and you may figure out that we've all been a beguiled and involuntary...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Georges Lemaître, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Entender la vida y obra de Georges Lemaître, un cura apasionado por las ciencias que quiso aunar su pasión y su devoción para explicar el origen del universo
• Repasar las distintas teorías acerca del origen del universo a lo largo de los siglos,...
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