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A.D.R. [initials of the semi-anonymous reviewer], 1938, “A Philosophy of Science,” Nature (London), 141: 95–96. (Scholar)
Balashov, Yuri, 2002, “Laws of the Physical Universe,” in Yuri Balashov and Vladimir Vizgin (eds.), Einstein Studies in Russia (Einstein Studies: Volume 10), Boston, Basel: Birkhäuser, pp. 107–148. (Scholar)
Bondi, H., 1957, “Some Philosophical Problems in Cosmology,” in British Philosophy in the Mid-Century, C. A. Mace (ed.), London: George Allen and Unwin. (Scholar)
–––, 1960, Cosmology, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1990, “The Cosmological Scene 1945–1952,” in Modern Cosmology in Retrospect, B. Bertotti, et al. (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Bondi, H. and C. W. Kilmister, 1959, “The Impact of Logik der Forschung,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 10: 55–57. (Scholar)
Chodorowski, M. J., 2005, “Cosmology Under Milne’s Shadow,” Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 22: 287–291. (Scholar)
Cohen, R. S., 1950, “Epistemology and Cosmology: E.A. Milne’s Theory of Relativity,” Review of Metaphysics, 3: 385–405. (Scholar)
Crowther, J. G. 1970, Fifty Years with Science, London: Barrie & Jenkins. (Scholar)
Dabek, Dariusz, 2019, “Edward A. Milne’s Philosophy of Science: between Aristotelianism and Popperism,” Roczniki Filozoficzne, LXVII: 5–23. (Scholar)
de Baerdemaeker, Siska, and Schneider, Mike D., 2022, “Better Appreciating the Scale of It: Lemaître and de Sitter at the BAAS Centenary,” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 12(1): 170–188. (Scholar)
de Sitter, W., 1934, “On the Foundations of the theory of Relativity, with Special reference to the Theory of the Expanding Universe,” Proceedings of the Royal Academy (Amsterdam), 37: 597–601. (Scholar)
de Swart, Jaco, 2020, “Closing in on the Cosmos: Cosmology’s Rebirth and the Rise of the Dark Matter Problem,” A. S. Blum, R. Lalli, J. Renn (eds.), The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context (Einstein Studies: Volume 16), Cham: Birkhäuser, 257–284. (Scholar)
Dingle, H. 1931, The Evolution of the Universe, London: Nature. (Scholar)
–––, 1933, “On E.A. Milne’s theory of world structure and the expansion of the Universe,” Zeitschrift für Astrophysik, 6: 173–179. (Scholar)
–––, 1937, “Modern Aristotelianism,” Nature (London), 139: 784–786. (Scholar)
–––, 1938, “Science and the Unobservable,” Nature (London), 141: 21–28. (Scholar)
–––, 1953, “The President’s Address,” Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Society, 113: 393–407. (Scholar)
Dubois, Eve-Aline, 2021, “1937 Année de l’hypotheses des grands nombres,” Revue des Questions Scientifiques, 192(1–2): 69–91. (Scholar)
Eddington, A. S., 1933, The Expanding Universe, Ann Arbor: Ann Arbor Paperbacks/University of Michigan Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1935, “Review of Relativity Gravitation and World-Structure,” Nature (London), 135: 635–636. (Scholar)
–––, 1939, The Philosophy of Physical Science, New York: Macmillan.. (Scholar)
Gale, G., Urani, J., 1994, “ Philosophical Midwifery and the Birth Pangs of Modern Cosmology,” American Journal of Physics, 61: 66–73. (Scholar)
–––, 1999, “Milne, Bondi, and the ‘Second Way’ to Cosmology,” in H. Goenner (ed.), The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity, Boston: Birkhauser, pp. 343–77. (Scholar)
Kermack, W. O. and W. H. McCrea, 1933, “On Milne’s Theory of World Structure,” Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Society, 93: 519–529. (Scholar)
Kragh, H., 2009, “Contemporary History of Cosmology and the Controversy over the Multiverse,” Annals of Science, 66: 529–551. (Scholar)
–––, 2011, Higher Speculations. Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Kragh, H. and Rebsdorf, S., 2002, “Before Cosmophysics: E.A. Milne on Mathematics and Physics,” Studies History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 33: 35–50. (Scholar)
Lepeltier, T., 2006, “Edward Milne’s Influence on Modern Cosmology,” Annals of Science, 63: 471–481. (Scholar)
Macchia, G., 2014, “J. Jeans’ Idealism about Space and its Influences on E.A. Milne at the Dawn of Modern Cosmology,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (Part B), 46: 303–315. (Scholar)
McCrea, W. H., 1935, “Observable Relations in relativistic Cosmology,” Zeitschrift für Astrophysik, 9: 290–314. (Scholar)
–––, 1939, “The Evolution of Theories of Space-Time and Mechanics,” Philosophy of Science, 6: 137–162. (Scholar)
McVittie, G. C., 1931, “The Problem of n Bodies and the Expansion of the Universe,” Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Society, 91: 274–283. (Scholar)
–––, 1933a, “The Mass-particle in an Expanding Universe,” Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Society, 93: 325–339. (Scholar)
–––, 1933b, “Milne’s Theory of the Expansion of the Universe,” Nature (London), 131: 533–534. (Scholar)
–––, 1934, “The Spiral Nebulae and the Expansion of the Universe,” Reports of the Physical Society (London), 1: 24–29. (Scholar)
–––, 1939, “Observation and Theory in Cosmology,” Proceedings of the Physical Society (London), 51: 529–537. (Scholar)
–––, 1990, Interview, March 21, 1978, in Interviews with Astrophysicists, New York: American Institute of Physics. (Scholar)
Milne, E. A., 1929, The Aims of Mathematical Physics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1933, “World-structure and the Expansion of the Universe,” Zeitschrift für Astrophysik, 6: 1–35. (Scholar)
–––, 1934a, “Some Points in the Philosophy of Physics: Time, Evolution and Creation,” Philosophy, 9: 19–38. (Scholar)
–––, 1934b, “World-models and the World-picture,” The Observatory, 57: 24–27. (Scholar)
–––, 1935, Relativity Gravitation and World-Structure, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1937, “Kinematics, Dynamics, and the Scale of Time,” Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), A158: 324–329. (Scholar)
–––, 1943, “The Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy,” Proceedings of the Royal Society (Edinburgh), 63: 10–24. (Scholar)
–––, 1932–37, Correspondence with Geoffrey Milne, Bodelian Library (Modern Manuscripts section), Oxford; used with permission. (Scholar)
Pearce, Jacob, 2017, “The unfolding of the historical style in modern cosmology: Emergence, evolution, entrenchment,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics), 57: 17–34. (Scholar)
–––, 2017, “ ‘Why These Laws?’—Multiverse Discourse as a Scene of Response,” Perspectives on Science, 25: 324–354.
Prits, Vasyl, 2020, “Philosophical Discussions Around Cosmology,” Filosofska Dumka, 3: 96–106. (Scholar)
Robertson, H. P., 1933a, “On E.A. Milne’s Theory of World Structure,” Zeitschrift für Astrophysik, 7: 152–162. (Scholar)
–––, 1933b, “Relativistic Cosmology,” Reviews of Modern Physics, 5: 62–90. (Scholar)
–––, 1935, “Kinematics and World-structure,” Astrophysical Journal, 82: 284–301. (Scholar)
–––, 1936, “Review of Milne’s Relativity Gravitation and World-Structure,” Astrophysical Journal, 83: 61–66. (Scholar)
Smeenk, C., 2014, “Einstein’s Role in the Creation of Relativistic Cosmology,” in M. Janssen and C. Lehner (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Einstein, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 228–269. (Scholar)
Temple, G., 1939, “Relativistic Cosmology,”Proceedings of the Physical Society (London), 51: 465–478. (Scholar)
Videira, A. A. P., 2005, “Herbert Dingle and the relation between science and philosophy at the beginning of modern cosmology,” Scientiae Studia, 3: 243–248. (Scholar)
Walker, A. G., 1934, “The Principle of Least Action in Milne’s Kinematical Relativity,” Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), 147A: 478–490. (Scholar)
–––, 1935, “On the formal comparison of Milne’s kinematical system with the systems of general relativity,” Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Society, 95: 263–269. (Scholar)
Weston-Smith, M., 2005, “E.A. Milne: A Nova of the Inter-war Years,”Astronomy Now, 19: 82–84. (Scholar)
–––, 2013, Beating the Odds: The Life and Times of E. A. Milne, London: World Scientific. (Scholar)
Whitrow, G. J. , 1996, “E. A. Milne and Cosmology,” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 37: 365–369. (Scholar)
Whittaker, E. T., 1935, “Review of Relativity Gravitation and World-Structure,” The Observatory, 58: 179–188. (Scholar)
–––, 1941, “Some Disputed Questions in the Philosophy of the Physical Sciences,” Proceedings of the Royal Society (Edinburgh), 61: 160–175. (Scholar)

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