The role of time in cosmology
pp. 159-177
in: Wolfgang Yourgrau, Allen D. Breck (eds), Cosmology, history, and theology, Berlin, Springer, 1977Abstrakt
The analogy between macrocosm and microcosm, which originated in antiquity and influenced thought down to the sixteenth century, based on the belief that ‘mind’ is the source of the orderliness in nature which makes natural science possible, the world being a kind of organism, both alive and intelligent.