%0 Book %T number of the heavens: a history of the multiverse and the quest to understand the cosmos %A Siegfried, Tom %D 2019 %I Harvard University Press %C Cambridge, Massachusetts %@ 9780674975880 %G English %F 1669285073 %O Tom Siegfried %O Includes bibliographical references and index %X Out of chaos, a multiverse -- Robert Grosseteste's multiverse -- Aristotle versus the atomists -- The condemnation of 1277 -- Condemnation aftermath -- Cusa and Copernicus -- Wandering in immensity -- Planets and people -- Island universes -- E pluribus universe -- Many quantum worlds -- Anthropic cosmology -- Brane worlds -- Defining the multiverse. %L 523.1/2 %K Multiverse %K History %9 Text