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First comprehensive and critical study of the history of ultimate theories in physics and cosmologyUses history of science as a resource for insight into current problems of fundamental physicsCombines scholarship with accessible presentationPresents much new material and documentation
Part I: Cases from the Past
1:Beginnings of Modern Science
2:A Victorian Theory of Everything
3:Electrodynamics as a World View
4:Rationalist Cosmologies
5:Cosmology and Controversy
6:The Rise and Fall of the Bootstrap Programme
Part II: The Present Scene
7:Varying Constants of Nature
8:New Cyclic Models of The Universe
9:Anthropic Science
10:The Multiverse Scenario
11:String Theory and Quantum Gravity
12:Astrobiology and Physical Eschatology
13:Summary: Final Theories and Epistemic Shifts
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First comprehensive and critical study of the history of ultimate theories in physics and cosmologyUses history of science as a resource for insight into current problems of fundamental physicsCombines scholarship with accessible presentationPresents much new material and documentation
