Predicting the future / edited by Leo Howe and Alan Wain.

Date:
1993
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Publication/Creation

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Physical description

v, 195 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes

"The Darwin College lectures"
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Dillons

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 prediction: how open is the future? / R. Gombrich -- The last judgement / D. Cupitt.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references and index

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    History of Medicine
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  • 0521413230