Knowing the Universe: History and Philosophy of Astronomy

About this course

Introductory course about the history and philosophy of astronomy, the oldest science: from prehistoric cultures keeping accurate calendars, through Greek philosophers and the revolutions of Copernicus, Galileo and Newton, to modern cosmology showing a 14-billion-year-old universe with hundreds of billions of galaxies; finishes with questions without answers — what came before the Big Bang, what is outside our universe, what is reality.

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