Discovering the expanding universe /

• Main Author: Nussbaumer, Harry (συγγραφέας.)
• Other Authors: Bieri, Lydia, 1972- (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Subjects: Κοσμολογία > Ιστορία

Table of 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.