de Swart, Jaco (2020) Closing in on the Cosmos: Cosmology's Rebirth and the Rise of the Dark Matter Problem. In: Blum A.S., Lalli R., Renn J. (eds) The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context. Einstein Studies, vol 16. pp. 257-284. ISSN 978-3-030-50754-1
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Influenced by the renaissance of general relativity that came to pass in the 1950s, the character of cosmology fundamentally changed in the 1960s as it became a well-established empirical science. Although observations went to dominate its practice, extra-theoretical beliefs and principles reminiscent of methodological debates in the 1950s kept playing an important tacit role in cosmological considerations. Specifically, belief in cosmologies that modeled a “closed universe” based on Machian insights remained influential. The rise of the dark matter problem in the early 1970s serves to illustrate this hybrid methodological character of cosmological science.
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| Keywords: | dark matter, cosmology, history of cosmology, philosophy of cosmology, methodology, pluralism, Mach | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Depositing User: | J.G. de Swart | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2020 04:08 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 22 Nov 2020 04:08 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 18418 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | In: Blum A.S., Lalli R., Renn J. (eds) The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context. Einstein Studies, vol 16 | ||||||
| Publisher: | Birkhauser, Cham | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-03... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50754-1_8 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Date: | 13 November 2020 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 257-284 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 978-3-030-50754-1 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18418 |
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