The "golden age of cosmology" is a term often used to describe the period from 1992 to the present in which important advances in
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Golden age of general relativity — The Golden Age of General Relativity is the period roughly from 1960 to 1975 during which the study of general relativity, which had previously been regarded as something of a curiosity, entered the mainstream of theoretical physics. During this… … Wikipedia
Islamic Golden Age — The Islamic Golden Age, also sometimes known as the Islamic Renaissance, [Joel L. Kraemer (1992), Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam , p. 1 148, Brill Publishers, ISBN 9004072594.] was traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th… … Wikipedia
Cosmology — The Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Every speck of light in this image is an entire galaxy. This is just a small region of a Universe which could contain as many as 200 billion galaxies. Cosmology is the discipline that deals with the nature of the… … Wikipedia
Cosmology — • In our day cosmology is a branch of philosophical study, and therefore excludes from its investigation whatever forms the object of the natural sciences Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Cosmology Cosmology … Catholic encyclopedia
Cosmology in medieval Islam — Islamic cosmology refers to cosmology in Islamic societies. It is mainly derived from the Qur an, Hadith, Sunnah, and current Islamic as well as other pre Islamic sources. The Qur an itself mentions seven heavens[1] and a vast universe sustained… … Wikipedia
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Buddhist cosmology — is the description of the shape and evolution of the universe according to the canonical Buddhist scriptures and commentaries. IntroductionThe self consistent Buddhist cosmology which is presented in commentaries and works of Abhidharma in both… … Wikipedia
Religious cosmology — For other approaches to the study of the Universe in its totality, see Cosmology. For other approaches to the origin of the Universe, see Cosmogony. A Religious cosmology (also mythological cosmology) is a way of explaining the origin, the… … Wikipedia
Esoteric cosmology — is cosmology that is an intrinsic part of an esoteric or occult system of thought. It almost always deals with at least some of the following themes: emanation, involution, evolution, epigenesis, planes of existence or higher worlds (and their… … Wikipedia
