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Discovering the expanding universe / Harry Nussbaumer, Lydia Bieri.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: xvii, 226 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780521514842 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 523.109 22
LOC classification:
  • QB981 .N865 2009
Other classification:
  • 39.01
Contents:
Introduction -- Cosmological concepts at the end of the Middle Ages -- Nebulae as a new astronomical phenomenon -- On the construction of the heavens -- Island universes turn into astronomical facts: a universe of galaxies -- The early cosmology of Einstein and de Sitter -- The dynamical universe of Friedmann -- Redshifts: how to reconcile Slipher and de Sitter? -- Lemaitre discovers the expanding universe -- Hubble's contribution of 1929 -- The breakthrough for the expanding universe -- Hubble's anger about de Sitter -- Robertson and Tolman join the game -- The Einstein-de Sitter universe -- Are the sun and earth older than the universe? -- In search of alternative tracks -- The seed for the Big Bang -- Summary and postscript.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-219) and index.

Introduction -- Cosmological concepts at the end of the Middle Ages -- Nebulae as a new astronomical phenomenon -- On the construction of the heavens -- Island universes turn into astronomical facts: a universe of galaxies -- The early cosmology of Einstein and de Sitter -- The dynamical universe of Friedmann -- Redshifts: how to reconcile Slipher and de Sitter? -- Lemaitre discovers the expanding universe -- Hubble's contribution of 1929 -- The breakthrough for the expanding universe -- Hubble's anger about de Sitter -- Robertson and Tolman join the game -- The Einstein-de Sitter universe -- Are the sun and earth older than the universe? -- In search of alternative tracks -- The seed for the Big Bang -- Summary and postscript.

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