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For over three millennia, most people could understand the universe only in terms of myth, religion, and philosophy. Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology transforme

Scientific and popular literature on modern cosmology is very extensive; however, scholarly works on the historical development of cosmology are few and scatter

This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later

This book presents the history of how the universe at large became the object of scientific understanding. Starting with the ancient creation myths, it offers a

Originally published: Cosmology. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960.