Cosmos In Transition (contents)

Cosmos in Transition: Essays in the History of Cosmology
by Stanley L. Jaki
1990 (Tucson, Arizona: Pachart, Publishing House, 1990), vii+248pp.

1. "The Milky Way Before Galileo"
   This chapter was first published in Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2 (1971), pp. 161-67. Reprinted with permission.
2. "The Milky Way from Galileo to Wright"
   This chapter was first published in Journal for the History of Astronomy, 3 (1972), pp. 199-204. Reprinted with permission.
3. "Lambert and the Watershed of Cosmology"
   This chapter was first published in Scientia (Milano), 113 (1978), pp. 97-114. Reprinted with permission.
4. "The Wronging of Wright"
   This chapter was first published in Old and New Questions in Physics, Cosmology, Philosophy, and Theoretical Biology. Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Yourgrau (New York: Plenum, 1983), pp. 593-605. Reprinted with permission.
5. "The Five Forms of Laplace’s Cosmogony"
   This chapter was originally published in American Journal of Physics, 44 (1976), pp. 4-11. Reprinted with permission.
6. "The Early History of the Titius-Bode Law"
   This chapter first appeared in American Journal of Physics, 40 (1972), pp. 1014-1023. Reprinted with permission.
7. "Soldner and the Bending of Light"
   This chapter is the introductory part of my article, “Johann Georg von Soldner and the Gravitational Bending of Light. With an English translation of his Essay on it published in 1801,” Foundations of Physics, 8 (1978), pp. 927-50. Reprinted with permission.
8. "The Gravitational Paradox of an Infinite Universe"
   This chapter first appeared in German under the title, “Des Gravitations-Paradoxon des unendlichen Universums,” in Sudhoffs Archiv 63 (1979), pp. 105-122. Reprinted with permission.
9. "The Chaos of Scientific Cosmology"
   This chapter originally appeared in The Nature of the Physical Universe: 1976 Nobel Conference organized by Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, ed. D. Huff and O. Prewett (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1979), pp. 83-112. Reprinted with permission.