TY - JOUR AU - Heller, MichaƂ PY - 2005/12/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Cosmological questions before Einstein JF - Philosophical Problems in Science (Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce) JA - ZFN VL - 0 IS - 37 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://zfn.edu.pl/index.php/zfn/article/view/328 SP - 32-40 AB - Einstein's first cosmological work, published in 1917, marked the beginning of relativistic cosmology, but it was well founded on earlier questions concerning the world as a whole. The paper presents three such topics: the Olbers paradox, the Seeliger paradox, and speculations concerning cosmological consequences of thermodynamics together with some of their repercussions in relativistic cosmology. ER -