Owen Gingerich (1930–2023)
Forfatter af The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
Om forfatteren
Owen Gingerich is senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and research professor of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University
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Værker af Owen Gingerich
The Nature of scientific discovery: a symposium commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus (1975) 14 eksemplarer
An Annotated Census of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus: (Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566) (Studia Copernicana - Brill… (2002) 7 eksemplarer
Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late 16th Century Cosmology (Transactions of the American Philosophical… (1988) 4 eksemplarer
The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology at 25 years: celebrating a collector's vision and its l 4 eksemplarer
Theory and Observation of Normal Stellar Atmospheres: Proceedings of the Third Harvard-Smithsonian Converence on… (1969) 3 eksemplarer
Colloquia Copernicana III: Proceedings of the Joint Symposium of the IAU and the IUHPS, cosponsor 2 eksemplarer
Στα ίχνη του Κοπέρνικου 1 eksemplar
The Six-Cornered Snowflake 1 eksemplar
The Universe as Theater for God's Action 1 eksemplar
Worrying About Evolution: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Goshen Conference on Religion and Science (2013) 1 eksemplar
Collector's Choice: A Selection of Books and Manuscripts Given by Harrison D. Horblit to the Harvard College Library (2005) 1 eksemplar
Science A-17: the astronomical perspective 1 eksemplar
Nicholas Copernicus 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Introduction to Astrophysics: The Stars (Dover Books on Physics) (1961) — Oversætter, nogle udgaver — 32 eksemplarer
The Starry Messenger, Venice 1610: "From Doubt to Astonishment" (1610) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Man and Creation: Perspectives on Science and Theology (A Christian Vision Book) (1993) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
The general history of astronomy, volume 4, Astrophysics and twentieth-century astronomy to 1950, Part A (1984) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 12 eksemplarer
The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Experts on the Ancient Near East, the… (2015) — Bidragyder — 12 eksemplarer
Curiosities of the Ticknor Society: Contributions from Members, 2014-2015 (2015) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
William and Caroline Herschel : Pioneers in Late 18th-Century Astronomy (2014) — Forord — 3 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Gingerich, Owen
- Juridisk navn
- Gingerich, Owen Jay
- Fødselsdato
- 1930-03-24
- Dødsdag
- 2023-05-28
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Washington, Iowa, USA
- Bopæl
- Washington, Iowa, USA
Kansas, USA
Indiana, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Uddannelse
- Goshen College, Indiana
Harvard University - Erhverv
- professor ( Harvard ∙ astronomy ∙ history of Science )
astronomer ( Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ) - Organisationer
- International Academy of the History of Science
Harvard University
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Poland's Order of Merit ( [1981])
Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Councilor of the American Astronomical Society
LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy (2000)
Asteroid Namesake ( [2658])
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (vis alle 7)
American Philosophical Society
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Gingerich holds the belief that the universe has been created and guided by an intelligence, God, and has a purpose. One source of support for this position comes from the amazing "fine tuning" of many cosmic conditions, any of which if different would have made impossible the development of life in the universe (see physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies' book "The Cosmic Jackpot).
An example: the balance between the outward expansion of energy and the inward pull of gravitational forces just after the Big Bang had to be accurate to within one part in 10 to the 59th power. A slight bit too much expansion would have left matter too widely dispersed to form galaxies, planets, intelligent beings, etc., and a slight bit too much gravitational pull would have collapsed the universe back on itself before these things could have developed. Were we just incredibly lucky that the balance happened to be just perfect to such an incredible degree for the eventual emergence of life? Or does this suggest some intelligence and purpose at work?
But although it makes more sense to Gingerich to view the universe as having a creative intelligence with purpose behind it, and he argues that the atheistic belief in a purposeless universe is a philosophical idea and not a scientific one, he is not trying to convert his atheistic colleagues in the scientific community. Rather he is arguing that both he, a believer in God, and his atheist colleagues will produce the same science regardless of their metaphysical positions on God and the cosmos.… (mere)