Predicting the future / edited by Leo Howe and Alan Wain.
Predicting the future / edited by Leo Howe and Alan Wain.
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Publisher
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Date
1993.
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N303.49/14
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Language
English
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Physical content
v, 195 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents
Introduction: predicting the future / L. Howe -- The future of the universe / S. Hawking -- Chaos / I. Stewart -- Comets and the world's end / S. Schaffer -- Predicting the economy / F. Hahn -- The medical frontier / I. Kennedy -- Divine providence in late antiquity / A. Cameron -- Buddhist predicti...
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Publisher
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1993.
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Summary
Auguries, oracles, omens...and software simulation. From antiquity to the electronic age, Predicting the Future examines humankind's obsessive urge to look beyond the present in the hope of controlling events in the days to come.
The book originates in the sixth annual series of Darwin College Lectures, delivered in Cambridge in 1991 under the title 'Predictions'. The contributors include Leo Howe on Predicting the Future; Stephen Hawking on The Future of the Universe; Ian Stewart on Chaos; Simon Schaffer on Comets; Frank Hahn on the Economy; Ian Kennedy on Medicine; Averil...
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Predicting the future / edited by Leo Howe and Alan Wain.
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The Darwin College lectures.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N303.49/14
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74VK6V4zzQgg
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ISBN
0521413230
9780521413237
DDC
303.49
MMS ID
991020904789702626
