The theoretical physicist shares his latest thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press. Along with eminent colleagues, Hawking extends theoretical frontiers by speculating on the big questions of modern cosmology.

Theories of the Universe: From Babylonian Myth to Modern Science (Library of Scientific Thought)

History

Galileo Galilei

Thorkild Jacobsen

Claudius Ptolemy

Giordano Bruno

Nicolaus Copernicus

Theodor, Gomperz

F.M. Cornford

Plató

Lucretius

Ancient Civilizations

The Free Press

The people in ancient times the phenomenal world was teeming with life; the thunderclap, the sudden shadow, the unknown and eerie clearing in the wood, all were living things. This unabridged edition traces the fascinating history of thought from the pre-scientific, personal concept of a "humanized" world to the achievement of detached intellectual reasoning. The authors describe and analyze the spiritual life of three ancient civilizations: the Egyptians, whose thinking was profoundly influenced by the daily rebirth of the sun and the annual rebirth of the Nile; the Mesopotamians, who believed the stars, moon, and stones were all citizens of a cosmic state; and the Hebrews, who transcended prevailing mythopoeic thought with their cosmogony of the will of God. In the concluding chapter the Frankforts show that the Greeks, with their intellectual courage, were the first culture to discover a realm of speculative thought in which myth was overcome.

The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay of Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East (Oriental Institute Essays)

Henri Frankfort

H. A. Frankfort

John A. Wilson

William A. Irwin

University of Chicago Press Journals

PREFACE The incentive to, the studies here presented was .furnished by the excava- tions,, of the Orient.al, Institute at Tell:Asmar. .When in the season of 1931/32 we opened up strata of Agade and Early Dynastic times, the chronology of these periods naturally occupied our thoughts greatly, and the author felt prompted to resume earlier, more perfunctory studies of the Sumerian King List. The main ideas embodied in the present work took shape that season in the evenings, after days spent in the houses and among the remains of the periods with which the King List deals. The detailed working-out and re- peated testing of these ideas have occupied much of the author's time in the years since then. He releases them-aithough he feels that they will continue to occupy his thoughts for a long time yet - in the sincere hope that they will prove fruitful to other workers in this field and contribute toward better under- standing of the innumerable chronological problems which still await solution. The author is indebted to many people for help and encouragement - first of all to the three men to whom this book is dedicated. To the example of their widely different but all truly scholarly personalities I owe much. O. E. Ravn, my teacher, is the embodiment of his own sober concepts of what scholarship should be and the best mentor a young Assyriologist could have. As for Ed- ward Chiera - only those who had the good fortune to work with this warm- hearted, vital, and inspiring scholar can fully realise how irreparable a loss our science suffered at his untimely death in 1933. With H. Frankfort I have been associated through ten years of work in the field and at home, fruitful years of friendship and free exchange of ideas which I value highly. Toward the studies here presented he has shown a never failing interest.

Sumerian King List

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