Hubble, Humason and the Big Bang: The Race to Uncover the Expanding Universe

Preface
Foreword
A Timely Tribute
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
1: Two Centuries Of Astronomical Discovery
	A Biographical Timeline
		250 Years of Development in Physics and Astronomy
			Christiaan Huygens And Isaac Newton: The First Unification Of Physics
			Revolutionaries: Lavoisier, Messier And The Herschels
			The Dawn Of Astrophysics: Fraunhofer And His Curious Lines
			The Dawn Of Spectroscopy: From Bunsen To Balmer
			Doppler: Pairing The Perception Of Light And Sound
			William Huggins: The Father Of Modern Spectroscopy
			Parallax: Measuring The Distance To The Stars
			The Ole Rømer Empire: Measuring The Cosmic Speed Limit
			Electromagnetism: Faraday, Maxwell And The Second Unification Of Physics
			Planck And Einstein: The Dawn Of Modern Physics
			George Hale And The Modern Astronomical Observatory
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2: A Portrait (1928)
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3: Childhood and Other Mysteries (1889-1909)
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4: Per Aspera Ad Astra (1910–1917)
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5: Merging Orbits (1918-1922)
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6: Rising Stars (1923-1927)
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7: Eclipsing Binaries (1928-1929)
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8: Bang! Goes The Universe (1929-1931)
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9: Grading Reality On A Curve (1932-1934)
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10: Cosmology And The Human Condition (1935-1936)
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11: War: Ultimate Disruptor (1937-1945)
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12: Aging Companion Stars (1946-1953)
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13: Shockwave: The Death Of A Star (1954-1961)
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14: The Last Horizon (1961-1991)
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Epilogue
Appendixies
	Appendix 1: Additional Reading
	Appendix 2: Hubble And Humason Selected Bibliography (Chronological)
Index