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Presents the history of cosmology in a new and lively formatProvides an engaging and distinctive portrait of each of the scientists involvedBy focusing on individuals, the book demonstrates the human complexity of scientific endeavoursAdditional comments and an extensive list of references provide full historical details and the chance to delve deeper into the subject
1:Kristian Birkeland: from aurora to the universe
2:Svante Arrhenius' eternal cosmos
3:Karl Schwarzschild: astronomer and physicist
4:Hugo von Seeliger and stellar cosmology
5:Albert Einstein's finite universe
6:Willem de Sitter and the expanding universe
7:George Lemaître's primeval atom
8:Arthur Eddington's rationalistic cosmology
9:Edwin Hubble, observational cosmologist
10:George Gamow: nuclear physics and the early universe
11:Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi: the steady state theory
12:Paul Dirac and the magic of large numbers
13:Robert Dicke and the big bang
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Presents the history of cosmology in a new and lively formatProvides an engaging and distinctive portrait of each of the scientists involvedBy focusing on individuals, the book demonstrates the human complexity of scientific endeavoursAdditional comments and an extensive list of references provide full historical details and the chance to delve deeper into the subject
