Cosmology
Here are entered works on the general science or philosophy of the universe. Works limited to the physical description of the universe are entered under Universe.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Cosmology -- Congresses
- Cosmology -- Early works to 1800
- Cosmology -- Fiction
- Cosmology -- History
- Cosmology -- Miscellanea
- Cosmology -- Periodicals
- Cosmology -- Research
- Anthropic principle
- Beginning
- Biblical cosmology
- Big bang theory
- Cosmogony
- Cosmography
- Cosmology in literature
- Cosmology, Ancient
- Earth (Planet) -- Origin
- Islamic cosmology
- Jewish cosmology
- Large scale structure (Astronomy)
- Monadology
- Moon -- Origin
- Planets -- Origin
- Plurality of worlds
- Solar system -- Origin
- Space sciences
- Theosophy
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. -- Knowledge -- Cosmology
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Why We Are Free: Consciousness, Free Will, and Creativity in a Unified Scientific Worldview (2021), by David Layzer, ed. by Anthony Aguirre and Bob Doyle (PDF with commentary at informationphilosopher.com)- From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, ca. 1957), by Alexandre Koyré (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences (second edition, 1999), by National Academy of Sciences (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)
- The Secret of the Universe: "God, Man and Matter" (New York: F. H. Revel and Co., 1932), by Nathan R. Wood (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Cosmology: A Research Briefing, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (HTML and PDF at NAP)
- The Creation of the Universe, by Hârun Yahya (multiple formats at harunyahya.info)
- On the Eternity of the World, by Saint Thomas Aquinas, trans. by Robert T. Miller (HTML at Fordham)
- The Origin and Its Meaning, by Roger Ellman (PDF files at the-origin.org)
- The Principia, or, The First Principles of Natural Things: Being New Attempts Toward a Philosophical Explanation of the Elementary World (2 volumes; London: W. Newbery; Boston: O. Clapp, 1845-1846), by Emanuel Swedenborg, trans. by Augustus Clissold
- Rational Cosmology, by Laurens P. Hickok (page images at MOA)
- The Scale of the Universe (published as an issue of the Bulletin of the National Research Council, 1921), by Harlow Shapley and Heber Doust Curtis (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Stories of Infinity: Lumen; History of a comet; In Infinity (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1873), by Camille Flammarion, trans. by S. R. Crocker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Timaeus, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
- Two New Worlds: I. The Infra-World; II. The Supra-World (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), by E. E. Fournier d'Albe
- Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (in English and German), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Ian Johnston
- The Phenomenon of Science (1977), by V. F. Turchin, trans. by Brand Frentz (illustrated HTML with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)
- Chaos and Creation: An Introduction to Quantavolution in Human and Natural History, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
- Man or Matter: Introduction to a Spiritual Understanding of Nature on the Basis of Goethe's Method of Training Observation and Thought (first edition), by Ernst Lehrs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Reign of Law, by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (HTML with commentary at Victorian Web)
- The Reign of Law (third American edition; New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1872), by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Reign of Law (fourth American edition; New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1873), by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (page images at HathiTrust)
- Studies in Hegelian Cosmology, by John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (PDF at McMaster)
- Accepting the Universe: Essays in Naturalism (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1920), by John Burroughs (page images at HathiTrust)
- Astronomical Myths: Based on Flammarion's "History of the Heavens" (London: Macmillan, 1877), by J. F. Blake, contrib. by Camille Flammarion (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole (sixth edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1885), by William Fairfield Warren
- Tree and Bird as Cosmological Symbols in Western Asia (Amsterdam: J. Müller, 1921), by A. J. Wensinck (page images at Gallica)
- Colloquium on the Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation (1998), by National Academy of Sciences (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)
- Recollections of a Fallen Sky: Velikovsky and Cultural Amnesia: Papers Presented at the University of Lethbridge, May 9 and 10, 1974, ed. by Earl R. Milton (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
- Utriusque Cosmi Maioris Scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica atque Technica Historia (2 volumes, in Latin; ca. 1617), by Robert Fludd
- Mosaicall Philosophy: Grounded Upon the Essentiall Truth or Eternal Sapience (London: Printed for H. Moseley, 1659), by Robert Fludd
- Theologia Mystica: or, The Mystic Divinitie of the Aeternal Invisibles, viz., the Archetypous Globe, or the Original Globe, or World of All Globes, Worlds, Essences, Centers, Elements, Principles and Creations Whatsoever (1683), by John Pordage, ed. by Edward Hooker, contrib. by Jane Lead (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Earths in the Universe (multiple translations), by Emanuel Swedenborg
- The Interaction of the Soul and the Body (multiple translations), by Emanuel Swedenborg
- A Review of The Theory of the Earth and of Its Proofs, Especially in Reference to Scripture (London: Printed by R. Norton for W. Kettilby, 1690), by Thomas Burnet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Signature of All Things, and Other Writings (London: J.M. Dent and Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1912), by Jakob Böhme, contrib. by Clifford Bax (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Sunborn (2008), by Jeffrey A. Carver (PDF with commentary at starrigger.net)
- Star Maker (c1937), by Olaf Stapledon (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- The Triuneverse: A Scientific Romance (London: C. Knight and Co., 1912), by R. A. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Die Kosmographie der Inder, Nach den Quellen Dargestellt (in German; Bonn and Leipzig: K. Schroeder, 1920), by Willibald Kirfel
- Israel by Israel: In His Appointed Time God Opened His Founding of the Earth to Men, a Belief in Which Required Faith; In His Appointed Time God Opens His Founding of the Earth to Man, a Belief in Which Requires Knowledge (Wichita, KS: The author, c1907), by Elijah Francis Israel
- The Oldest History of the World, Discovered by Occult Science in Detroit, Mich. (only volume known to have been published; Detroit: The author, c1926), by Benny Evangelist (page images at HathiTrust)
- Journal of Big History (partial serial archives)
- Apeiron: Studies in Infinite Nature (1987-) (full serial archives)
- Cosmology: A Research Briefing, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (HTML and PDF at NAP)
- Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (New York and London: Routledge, c2002), by Nick Bostrom (HTML and PDF with commentary at anthropic-principle.com)
- Through New Eyes: Developing a Biblical View of the World (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth and Hyatt, c1988), by James B. Jordan (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
- Taking Back Astronomy (electronic hyperlinked edition; originally published 2006), by Jason Lisle (illustrated HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
- Taking Back Astronomy (electronic hyperlinked edition; originally published 2006), by Jason Lisle (illustrated HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
- New Light on Space and Time (Portland, OR: North Pacific Publishers, 1965), by Dewey B. Larson (illustrated HTML at reciprocalsystem.com)
- Basic Properties of Matter (Portland, OR: North Pacific Publishers, 1988), by Dewey B. Larson (HTML at reciprocalsystem.com)
- Chaos and Creation: An Introduction to Quantavolution in Human and Natural History, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
- A Journey to the Earth's Interior: or, Have the Poles Really Been Discovered (Aurora, IL: The author, 1913), by Marshall B. Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Journey to the Earth's Interior: or, Have the Poles Really Been Discovered (second edition, 1920), by Marshall B. Gardner (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Life of the Universe, As Conceived by Man From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (2 volumes; London and New York: Harper and Bros., 1909), by Svante Arrhenius, trans. by H. Borns
- Solaria Binaria: Origins and History of the Solar System, by Alfred De Grazia and Earl R. Milton (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
- Stellar Evolution and Its Relations to Geological Time (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1889), by James Croll (Gutenberg text)
- Worlds in the Making: The Evolution of the Universe (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1908), by Svante Arrhenius, trans. by H. Borns
- The Universe of Motion (Portland, OR: North Pacific Publishers, 1984), by Dewey B. Larson (HTML at reciprocalsystem.com)
- The Neglected Facts of Science (for chapter 2, readers may need to click back from chapter 3; Portland, OR: North Pacific Publishers, 1982), by Dewey B. Larson (HTML with commentary at reciprocalsystem.com)
- The Structure of the Physical Universe (second printing; Portland, OR: North Pacific Publishers, 1960), by Dewey B. Larson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Animate and the Inanimate (c1925), by William James Sidis (HTML at sidis.net)
- La Religion en Face de la Science (2 volumes in 3, in French; 1881-1883), by Alexis Arduin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mars as the Abode of Life (New York: Macmillan, 1908), by Percival Lowell
- Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (in English and German), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Ian Johnston
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