Приямвада Натараджан - Карта Вселенной [Главные идеи, которые объясняют устройство космоса]

6. Тит Лукреций Кар. О природе вещей. — М.: Художественная литература, 1983.

7. По мнению Бертрана Рассела, вся западная философия начинается с Фалеса Милетского. См.: Рассел Б. История западной философии. — М.: АСТ, 2017.

8. Ayman Shihadeh, «From al-Ghazali to al-Razi: 6th/12th Century Developments in Muslim Philosophical Theology», Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 15 (2005): 141–79.

9. J. T. Fraser, Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge: Reflections on the Strategy of Existence (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), 32.

10. Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, translated by Elizabeth Gunning (London, 1803), 110.

11. Camille Flammarion, Lumen, translated by A. A. M. and R. M. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1897), доступно на сайте www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43835; см. также книгу Mark Brade, Alien Life Imagined: Communicating the Science and Culture of Astrobiology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 194, 195.

12. Emily Swanson, «Alien Poll Finds Half of Americans Think Extraterrestrial Life Exists», Huffington Post, updated July 29, 2013, www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/ alien-poll_n_3473852.html

13. Steven J. Dick, Life on Other Worlds: The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 193–95; and George Gaylord Simpson, «The Nonprevalence of Humanoids», Science 143, no. 3608 (February 21, 1964): 769–75.

14. Dennis Overbye, «Far-Off Planets like the Earth Dot the Galaxy», New York Times, November 5, 2013; Doyle Rice, «Earthshaking News: There May Be Other Planets like Ours», USA Today, November 4, 2013; and Martin Rees, «Are We Alone in the Universe? We’ll Know Soon», Guardian, September 16, 2012.

15. «Fermi Paradox», SETI Institute, www.seti.org/seti-institute/project/details/fermi-paradox; Michael Hart, «An Explanation for the Absence of Extraterrestrials on Earth», Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 16, no. 2 (1975): 135.

16. Интервью Стивена Джей Гулда Academy of Achievement, June 28, 1991, www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/ gou0int-1; and Theodosius Dobzhansky, «Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution», American Biology Teacher 35, no. 3 (1973): 125–29.

17. Последние данные представлены на странице: Кеплер НАСА Ames Research Center, http://kepler.nasa.gov/

18. Информация о проекте «Events», Breakthrough Initiatives, c 22 сентября 2015 года доступна на сайте www.breakthroughinitiatives.org/?controller=Page&action=page&page_id=6; and Rachel Feltman, «Stephen Hawking announces $100 million hunt for alien life», Speaking of Science (blog), Washington Post, July 20, 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/07/20/stephen-hawking-announces-100-million-hunt-for-alien-life/

Существует много книг, доступных для любознательного читателя, пожелавшего продолжить чтение и узнать больше о проблемах космологии, которые мы обсуждали. Ниже приводится подборка книг, описывающих историю идей космологии и текущее состояние изучаемых научных проблем.

Ball, Philip. Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Barrow, John D. The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos. New York: W. W. Norton, 2012.

—. The Constants of Nature. London: Jonathon Cape, 2002.

Bartusiak, Marcia. Archives of the Universe: A Treasury of Astronomy’s Historic Works of Discovery. New York: Pantheon, 2004.

—. Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.

—. The Day We Found the Universe. New York: Vintage, 2009. Bernstein, Jeremy. Albert Einstein: And the Frontiers of Physics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Bronowski, Jacob. The Common Sense of Science. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1978.

—. The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

Brotton, Jerry. A History of the World in Twelve Maps. New York: Viking, 2012.

Carroll, Sean. The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World. New York: Dutton, 2012.

Corfield, Richard. Lives of the Planets: A Natural History of the Solar System. New York: Basic Books, 2007.

Dalal, Ahmad. Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.

Davies, Paul. The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? New York: Allen Lane, 2006.

Davies, Paul, and J. Gribbin. The Matter Myth: Dramatic Discoveries That Challenge Our Understanding of Physical Reality. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007 (reissue).

Dyson, Freeman. The Scientist as Rebel. New York: New York Review of Books, 2014.

Ferguson, Kitty. Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time. New York: Walker Books, 1999.

—. Tycho and Kepler. New York: Walker Books, 2002.

Freese, Katherine. The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. Reprint, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.

Galison, Peter L. Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

—. Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.

—. How Experiments End. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Gates, Evalyn. Einstein’s Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009.

Gingerich, Owen. The Book Nobody Read. New York: Penguin, 2005.

Gleiser, Marcelo. The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning. New York: Basic Books, 2014.

Goldberg, David. The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality. New York: Dutton: 2013.

Greene, Brian. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.

—. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality. New York: Knopf, 2004.

Gribbin, John. Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique. London: Wiley, 2011.

—. In Search of the Big Bang. London: Bantam, 1986.

—. The Origins of the Future: Ten Questions for the Next Ten Years. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

Grinnell, Frederick. Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. London: Bantam, 1988.

—. The Universe in a Nutshell. London: Bantam, 2001.

Hellman, Hal. Great Feuds in Science: Ten Disputes That Shaped the World. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1998.

Holmes, Richard. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. London: Pantheon, 2009.