Editorial: Springer
Número de páginas: 327 págs.
Fecha de edición: 04-08-2023
EAN: 9783031052798
ISBN: 978-3-031-05279-8
Precio (sin IVA): 134,41 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 139,79 €
Howard Carlton examines the available primary sources which provide insight into the lives of a number of nineteenth-century astronomers, theologians and physicists to study the complex interactions within their ‘biocultural’ brain-body systems which drove parallel changes of perspective in theology, metaphysics, and cosmology. In doing so, he also explores three topics of great scientific interest during this period: the question of the possible existence of life on other planets; the deployment of the nebular hypothesis as a theory of cosmogony; and the religiously charged debates about the ages of the earth and sun.