Contents -- Prologue to 2nd Enlarged Edition -- Acknowledgements and Credits -- The Intelligible Universe (Shanghai/Madrid 1993) -- 1. Man and His Universe -- 1.1 Einstein's Eternal Mystery -- 1.2 From Antiquity to the XVI Century -- 1.3 From Galileo and Newton to Kirchhoff -- 1.4 The XX Century -- Bibliography -- 2. The Importance of Precision -- 2.1 The Last Word in Physics -- 2.2 Precise Astronomical Observations -- 2.3 The New Generation of Telescopes -- Bibliography -- 3. Masses, Distances and Times in the Universe -- 3.1 Masses -- 3.2 Distances -- 3.3 Times -- Bibliography -- 4. Relativistic Cosmology -- 4.1 Relativity, Special and General -- 4.2 The Cosmological Dynamic Equations -- 4.3 The Matter Dominated and the Radiation Dominated Eras -- 4.4 The Cosmic Baryon to Photon Ratio -- Bibliography -- 5. The Fundamental Physical Forces in the Universe -- 5.1 Gravitational, Electromagnetic and Nuclear Forces -- 5.2 Conservation Laws -- 5.3 Elementary Particles -- 5.4 Universal Constants -- 5.5 Understanding the Universe, and Open-Ended Process -- Bibliography -- 6. Cosmology and Transcendence -- 6.1 Towards the Confines of the Universe -- 6.2 Observable Data and Big Bang Model -- 6.2.1 Approximately isotropic distribution of galaxies in space -- 6.2.2 Universal recession of the galaxies -- 6.2.3 Relative abundance of 4He and other primordial light elements -- 6.2.4 Cosmic background radiation -- 6.3 Implications of Contemporary Cosmology -- 6.4 The Physical Universe and Its Creator -- 6.5 God and the Scientists -- Bibliography -- The Cosmic Background Radiation (El Escorial 1993) -- 7. The COBE Project, by John C. Mather -- 8. COBE Observations of the Early Universe, by George F. Smoot -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 COBE Mission -- 8.3 DMR Instrument -- 8.4 DMR Limits on Potential Systematica -- 8.5 DMR Observations -- 8.6 DMR Result Discussion.

8.7 DIRBE Measurements -- 8.8 FIRAS Instruments Descriptions -- 8.9 FIRAS Measurements -- 8.10. FIRAS Interpretation -- 8.11 Summary -- Bibliography -- The Last Thirteen Billion Years… (Krakow, 1998/Madrid, 2002) -- 9. Unexpected Coincidence between Decoupling and Atom Formation Times -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Radiation/Matter Equality Temperature -- 9.3 Atom Formation -- 9.4 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 10. An Amazing Story: From the Cave Man to the Apollo Mission -- Bibliography -- 11. From the Big Bang to the Present -- Bibliography -- 12. Astrophysical Cosmology Around Year 2000 AC -- 12.1 The COBE Project -- 12.2 The Hubble Space Telescope -- 12.3 The Spacial Mission Hipparcos -- Bibliography -- The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (Singapore/Madrid, 2005) -- 13. The Report of the WMAP's First Year Observation in the NY Times: 02/12/2003 -- Bibliography -- The Medieval Roots of Contemporary Science (Oviedo, 2007) -- 14. Why Not in China? -- 14.1 Why Not in China -- 14.2 Early Medieval "Natural Philosophers" -- Bibliography -- 15. Tomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon -- 15.1 Tomas Aquinas and the Ways to God -- 15.2 Roger Bacon and the Experimental Method -- Bibliography -- 16. From Buridan and Oresme to Copernicus and Newton -- Bibliography -- 17. The Wisdom of God Manisfested in the Works of Creation -- 17.1 Physicists -- 17.2 Chemists -- 17.3 Mathematicians -- 17.4 Geologists and Geographers -- 17.5 Astronomers -- Bibliography -- Cosmic Numbers and Concluding Remarks -- 18. Cosmic Numbers -- Bibliography -- 19. Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.