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• BOOK COVER
• TITLE
• COPYRIGHT
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1: IN THE BEGINNING
• EARLIEST CONCEPTIONS OF THE UNIVERSE
• ASTRONOMICAL THEORIES OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS
• THE SYSTEM OF ARISTOTLE AND ITS IMPACT ON MEDIEVAL THOUGHT
• CHAPTER 2: THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION
• GALILEO
• THE INFINITE UNIVERSE
• KEPLER’S LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION
• TYCHONIC SYSTEM
• CHAPTER 3: NEWTON’S IMPACT AND 19TH-CENTURY ADVANCEMENTS
• NEWTON’S LAW OF GRAVITATION
• CONTRIBUTIONS OF EDMOND HALLEY
• HALLEY AND NEWTON
• TRACKING COMETS AND STARS
• THE DISCOVERIES OF WILLIAM HERSCHEL
• THE HERSCHEL LEGACY
• TAKING ASTRONOMY TO A NEW LEVEL
• NEWCOMB’S TABLES AND CONSTANTS
• CHAPTER 4: PERCEPTIONS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
• SHAPLEY’S CONTRIBUTIONS
• RELATIVISTIC COSMOLOGIES
• GRAVITATION AND THE GEOMETRY OF SPACE-TIME
• EINSTEIN’S MODEL
• DE SITTER’S MODEL
• FRIEDMANN-LEMAÎTRE MODELS
• THE EINSTEIN–DE SITTER UNIVERSE
• BOUND AND UNBOUND UNIVERSES AND THE CLOSURE DENSITY
• HUBBLE’S RESEARCH ON EXTRAGALACTIC SYSTEMS
• THE HUBBLE LAW
• HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL
• SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON
• CHAPTER 5: EXPANDING STUDY OF THE UNIVERSE
• THE NATURE OF SPACE AND TIME
• THE HOT BIG BANG
• THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
• PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
• THE DEUTERIUM ABUNDANCE
• THE VERY EARLY UNIVERSE
• INHOMOGENEOUS NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
• MATTER-ANTIMATTER ASYMMETRY
• SUPERUNIFICATION AND THE PLANCK ERA
• INFLATION
• STEADY STATE THEORY AND OTHER ALTERNATIVE COSMOLOGIES
• DARK MATTER AND DARK ENERGY
• DARK MATTER
• DARK ENERGY
• CHAPTER 6: ANCIENT AND EARLY ASTRONOMERS
• ANCIENT TIMES
• ANAXIMANDER
• ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS
• ERATOSTHENES OF CYRENE
• HERACLEIDES PONTICUS
• HIPPARCHUS
• KIDINNU
• PTOLEMY
• MEDIEVAL
• AL-BATTANI
• AL-BIRUNI
• RENAISSANCE
• GEORG RHETICUS
• 17TH CENTURY
• JOHANN BAYER
• GIAN DOMENICO CASSINI
• JOHN FLAMSTEED
• JOHANNES HEVELIUS
• JEREMIAH HORROCKS
• SIMON MARIUS
• NICOLAS-CLAUDE FABRI DE PEIRESC
• JEAN PICARD
• JEAN RICHER
• OLE RØMER
• 18TH CENTURY
• JEAN-SYLVAIN BAILLY
• JEAN-BAPTISTE-GASPARD BOCHART DE SARON
• JOHANN BODE
• PIERRE BOUGUER
• JACQUES CASSINI
• JEAN-BAPTISTE-JOSEPH DELAMBRE
• JOSEPH-NICOLAS DELISLE
• JOHN GOODRICKE
• NICOLAS DE LACAILLE
• JÉRÔME LALANDE
• JOHANN MAYER
• CHARLES MESSIER
• DAVID RITTENHOUSE
• JOHANN TITIUS
• CHAPTER 7: NOTABLE ASTRONOMERS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
• JOHN COUCH ADAMS
• SIR GEORGE AIRY
• FRIEDRICH ARGELANDER
• EDWARD EMERSON BARNARD
• WILLIAM CRANCH BOND
• LEWIS BOSS
• WILLIAM WALLACE CAMPBELL
• JAMES CHALLIS
• HEINRICH D’ARREST
• SIR GEORGE DARWIN
• WILLIAM RUTTER DAWES
• CHARLES-EUGÈNE DELAUNAY
• JOHAN DREYER
• JOHANN FRANZ ENCKE
• WILLIAMINA PATON STEVENS FLEMING
• JOSEPH VON FRAUNHOFER
• JOHANN GALLE
• SIR DAVID GILL
• JAMES GILLISS
• BENJAMIN GOULD
• JOHANN HAGEN
• GEORGE HILL
• SIR WILLIAM HUGGINS
• PIERRE JANSSEN
• JAMES kEELER
• JOHANN VON LAMONT
• JONATHAN LANE
• WILLIAM LASSELL
• URBAIN-JEAN-JOSEPH LE VERRIER
• SIR JOSEPH LOCKYER
• PERCIVAL LOWELL
• JOHANN VON MÄDLER
• MARIA MITCHELL
• WILHELM OLBERS
• EDWARD PICKERING
• WILLIAM PICKERING
• LEWIS RUTHERFURD
• SIR EDWARD SABINE
• GIOVANNI SCHIAPARELLI
• ANGELO SECCHI
• FRIEDRICH VON STRUVE
• HERMANN VOGEL
• MAX WOLF
• RUDOLF WOLF
• CHAPTER 8: 20TH-CENTURY ASTRONOMERS
• CHARLES ABBOT
• VIKTOR AMBARTSUMIAN
• HALTON ARP
• PATRICK BLACKETT
• BART BOK
• SIR HERMANN BONDI
• I. S. BOWEN
• DIRK BROUWER
• MARGARET BURBIDGE
• ANNIE JUMP CANNON
• SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR
• ROBERT DICKE
• SIR FRANK DYSON
• WILLIAM FOWLER
• VITALY GINZBURG
• THOMAS GOLD
• STEPHEN W. HAWKING
• OTTO HECKMANN
• EJNAR HERTZSPRUNG
• VICTOR FRANCIS HESS
• ANTONY HEWISH
• RUSSELL HULSE
• SIR JAMES JEANS
• SIR HAROLD SPENCER JONES
• JACOBUS KAPTEYN
• ROY P. KERR
• NIKOLAY ALEKSANDROVICH KOZYREV
• GERARD KUIPER
• BERTIL LINDBLAD
• MALCOLM LONGAIR
• EDWARD MILNE
• MARCEL MINNAERT
• WILLIAM W. MORGAN
• JAN OORT
• ERNEST ÖPIK
• SIR ROGER PENROSE
• SIR MARTIN RYLE
• CARL SAGAN
• MEGHNAD N. SAHA
• ALLAN SANDAGE
• FRANK SCHLESINGER
• MAARTEN SCHMIDT
• KARL SCHWARZSCHILD
• HARLOW SHAPLEY
• WILLEM DE SITTER
• VESTO SLIPHER
• BENGT STRÖMGREN
• OTTO STRUVE
• POL SWINGS
• JOSEPH H. TAYLOR, JR.
• CLYDE W. TOMBAUGH
• ROBERT TRUMPLER
• FRITZ ZWICKY
• GLOSSARY
• FOR FURTHER READING
• INDEX
• BACK COVER