133Accesses
Born Röcken bei Lützen, Sachsen, (Germany), 15 October 1844
Died Weimar, Germany, 25 August 1900
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was influential during an era when scientists were working out the ramifications of the laws of thermodynamics. In this light, his vision of “eternal recurrence” in infinite time may be viewed as a cosmological theory or as a concept in thermodynamics, related to the more quantiative Poincaré recurrence time.
This is a preview of subscription content,log in via an institution to check access.
Selected Reference
Krueger, Joe (1978). “Nietzschean Recurrence as a Cosmological Hypothesis.”Journal of the History of Philosophy 16: 435–444.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Office: Latham 112, 50614, Cedar Falls, IA, USA
Thomas Hockey (Professor of Astronomy) (Professor of Astronomy)
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
About this entry
Cite this entry
(2007). Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Hockey, T.,et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1012
Download citation
Publisher Name:Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN:978-0-387-31022-0
Online ISBN:978-0-387-30400-7
eBook Packages:Physics and AstronomyReference Module Physical and Materials ScienceReference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics
Share this entry
Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content:
Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article.
Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative