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Cosmic Evolution, New Aspects

Its Principles Applied to Mineral, Plant and Animal Origin and Development
by Adolph Kreisberg
📅 1928 📄 228 pages
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Adolph Kreisberg

Adolph Kreisberg was an early-twentieth-century author working at the intersection of speculative science, philosophy, and what would today be classified as proto-cosmology and metaphysics. His 1928 volume Cosmic Evolution, New Aspects belongs to a small but distinctive genre of inter-war popular-science writing that attempted to reconcile emerging astronomical discoveries with older philosophical traditions about the origin and development of the universe. Books in this tradition, published in the years between Einstein's general relativity reaching mainstream audiences and Hubble's confirmation of an expanding universe, sit on the border between scientific exposition and speculative essay. Kreisberg's work joined contributions from figures like James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, and the wider wave of authors who attempted to translate the strange new physics of the 1920s for educated general readers without academic training. Little contemporary biographical material on Kreisberg circulates outside specialist collections, and his writing is best understood as part of the broader 1920s movement to popularize cosmological speculation, rather than as work attached to a major university or scientific institution. Cosmic Evolution, New Aspects has since been preserved in research-library collections and reissued in print-on-demand editions for readers interested in the history of popular science writing. Readers interested in the wider intellectual culture that produced his work will find natural companion reading in the period writings of Eddington, Jeans, and the early popularizers of relativity and quantum theory who were Kreisberg's contemporaries.
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