ERIC Number: EJ660282
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2002
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The Whole Shebang: How Science Produced the Big Bang Model.
Ferris, Timothy
American Educator, v26 n3 p20-23,43-45 Fall 2002
Offers an account of the accumulation of evidence that has led scientists to have confidence in the big bang theory of the creation of the universe. Discusses the early work of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton, noting the rise of astrophysics, and highlighting the birth of the big bang model (the cosmic microwave background theory and concurrence of other theories). (SM)
Descriptors: Astronomy, Scientific Research
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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