The day without yesterday : Lemaître, Einstein, and the birth of modern cosmology /
Tells the life story of Georges Lemaître, the twentieth-century Belgian priest who became the father of modern cosmology, and chronicles the history of the study of the universe's expansion
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New York :
Thunder's Mouth Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West,
[2005], ©2005
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Table of Contents:
- Solvay
- Out of the trenches
- A universe that evolves: the history of an idea
- From Cambridge to Cambridge
- Expansion is discovered
- The primeval atom
- The cosmic microwave background
- Lean years
- The return of Lemaître's constant
- Seeing through the singularity
- Cathedrals in space
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- 1 Solvay
- 2. Out of the trenches
- 3. A universe that evolves : the history of an idea
- 4. From Cambridge to Cambridge
- 5. Expansion is discovered
- 6. The primeval atom
- 7. The cosmic microwave background
- 8. Lean years
- 9. The return of Lemaitre's constant
- 10. Seeing through the singularity
- 11. Cathedrals in space.
- 1 Solvay
- 2. Out of the trenches
- 3. A universe that evolves : the history of an idea
- 4. From Cambridge to Cambridge
- 5. Expansion is discovered
- 6. The primeval atom
- 7. The cosmic microwave background
- 8. Lean years
- 9. The return of Lemaitre's constant
- 10. Seeing through the singularity
- 11. Cathedrals in space.