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Big Bang Cosmology and Religious Thought
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Alexander Friedmann and Georges Lemaître are undoubtedly the real fathers of Big Bang cosmologies. In this article I study the influences their work underwent due to some religious…
Ulugh Beg, Prince of Stars
J. -P. Luminet
Who was Ulugh Beg? A prince who governed a province in the central Asian empire built by his grandfather Tamerlane. Above all, he was a scholar who founded the Samarkand astronomic…
The Reception of the Copernican Revolution Among Provençal Humanists of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Jean-Pierre Luminet
We discuss the reception of Copernican astronomy by the Provençal humanists of the XVIth-XVIIth centuries, beginning with Michel de Montaigne who was the first to recognize the pot…
Creation, Chaos, Time : from Myth to Modern Cosmology
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Every society has a story rooted in its most ancient traditions, of how the earth and sky originated. Most of these stories attribute the origin of all things to a Creator - whethe…
Evry Leon Schatzman
Jean-Pierre Luminet
This article describes the life and work of French astrophysicist Evry Schatzman (1920-2010). He was a pioneer in the study of white dwarfs during the 1940s and was one of the prop…
Willem Janszoon Blaeu
Jean-Pierre Luminet
This article describes the life and work of Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), who founded one of history's greatest cartographic publishing firms in 1599. Mostly renowned as a car…