BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: IN THE BEGINNING -- EARLIEST CONCEPTIONS OF THE UNIVERSE -- ASTRONOMICAL THEORIES OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS -- THE SYSTEM OF ARISTOTLE AND ITS IMPACT ON MEDIEVAL THOUGHT -- CHAPTER 2: THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION -- GALILEO -- THE INFINITE UNIVERSE -- KEPLER'S LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION -- TYCHONIC SYSTEM -- CHAPTER 3: NEWTON'S IMPACT AND 19TH-CENTURY ADVANCEMENTS -- NEWTON'S LAW OF GRAVITATION -- CONTRIBUTIONS OF EDMOND HALLEY -- HALLEY AND NEWTON -- TRACKING COMETS AND STARS -- THE DISCOVERIES OF WILLIAM HERSCHEL -- THE HERSCHEL LEGACY -- TAKING ASTRONOMY TO A NEW LEVEL -- NEWCOMB'S TABLES AND CONSTANTS -- CHAPTER 4: PERCEPTIONS OF THE 20TH CENTURY -- SHAPLEY'S CONTRIBUTIONS -- RELATIVISTIC COSMOLOGIES -- GRAVITATION AND THE GEOMETRY OF SPACE-TIME -- EINSTEIN'S MODEL -- DE SITTER'S MODEL -- FRIEDMANN-LEMAÎTRE MODELS -- THE EINSTEIN-DE SITTER UNIVERSE -- BOUND AND UNBOUND UNIVERSES AND THE CLOSURE DENSITY -- HUBBLE'S RESEARCH ON EXTRAGALACTIC SYSTEMS -- THE HUBBLE LAW -- HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL -- SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON -- CHAPTER 5: EXPANDING STUDY OF THE UNIVERSE -- THE NATURE OF SPACE AND TIME -- THE HOT BIG BANG -- THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND -- PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS -- THE DEUTERIUM ABUNDANCE -- THE VERY EARLY UNIVERSE -- INHOMOGENEOUS NUCLEOSYNTHESIS -- MATTER-ANTIMATTER ASYMMETRY -- SUPERUNIFICATION AND THE PLANCK ERA -- INFLATION -- STEADY STATE THEORY AND OTHER ALTERNATIVE COSMOLOGIES -- DARK MATTER AND DARK ENERGY -- DARK MATTER -- DARK ENERGY -- CHAPTER 6: ANCIENT AND EARLY ASTRONOMERS -- ANCIENT TIMES -- ANAXIMANDER -- ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS -- ERATOSTHENES OF CYRENE -- HERACLEIDES PONTICUS -- HIPPARCHUS -- KIDINNU -- PTOLEMY -- MEDIEVAL -- AL-BATTANI -- AL-BIRUNI -- RENAISSANCE -- GEORG RHETICUS -- 17TH CENTURY -- JOHANN BAYER -- GIAN DOMENICO CASSINI.

JOHN FLAMSTEED -- JOHANNES HEVELIUS -- JEREMIAH HORROCKS -- SIMON MARIUS -- NICOLAS-CLAUDE FABRI DE PEIRESC -- JEAN PICARD -- JEAN RICHER -- OLE RØMER -- 18TH CENTURY -- JEAN-SYLVAIN BAILLY -- JEAN-BAPTISTE-GASPARD BOCHART DE SARON -- JOHANN BODE -- PIERRE BOUGUER -- JACQUES CASSINI -- JEAN-BAPTISTE-JOSEPH DELAMBRE -- JOSEPH-NICOLAS DELISLE -- JOHN GOODRICKE -- NICOLAS DE LACAILLE -- JÉRÔME LALANDE -- JOHANN MAYER -- CHARLES MESSIER -- DAVID RITTENHOUSE -- JOHANN TITIUS -- CHAPTER 7: NOTABLE ASTRONOMERS OF THE 19TH CENTURY -- JOHN COUCH ADAMS -- SIR GEORGE AIRY -- FRIEDRICH ARGELANDER -- EDWARD EMERSON BARNARD -- WILLIAM CRANCH BOND -- LEWIS BOSS -- WILLIAM WALLACE CAMPBELL -- JAMES CHALLIS -- HEINRICH D'ARREST -- SIR GEORGE DARWIN -- WILLIAM RUTTER DAWES -- CHARLES-EUGÈNE DELAUNAY -- JOHAN DREYER -- JOHANN FRANZ ENCKE -- WILLIAMINA PATON STEVENS FLEMING -- JOSEPH VON FRAUNHOFER -- JOHANN GALLE -- SIR DAVID GILL -- JAMES GILLISS -- BENJAMIN GOULD -- JOHANN HAGEN -- GEORGE HILL -- SIR WILLIAM HUGGINS -- PIERRE JANSSEN -- JAMES kEELER -- JOHANN VON LAMONT -- JONATHAN LANE -- WILLIAM LASSELL -- URBAIN-JEAN-JOSEPH LE VERRIER -- SIR JOSEPH LOCKYER -- PERCIVAL LOWELL -- JOHANN VON MÄDLER -- MARIA MITCHELL -- WILHELM OLBERS -- EDWARD PICKERING -- WILLIAM PICKERING -- LEWIS RUTHERFURD -- SIR EDWARD SABINE -- GIOVANNI SCHIAPARELLI -- ANGELO SECCHI -- FRIEDRICH VON STRUVE -- HERMANN VOGEL -- MAX WOLF -- RUDOLF WOLF -- CHAPTER 8: 20TH-CENTURY ASTRONOMERS -- CHARLES ABBOT -- VIKTOR AMBARTSUMIAN -- HALTON ARP -- PATRICK BLACKETT -- BART BOK -- SIR HERMANN BONDI -- I. S. BOWEN -- DIRK BROUWER -- MARGARET BURBIDGE -- ANNIE JUMP CANNON -- SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR -- ROBERT DICKE -- SIR FRANK DYSON -- WILLIAM FOWLER -- VITALY GINZBURG -- THOMAS GOLD -- STEPHEN W. HAWKING -- OTTO HECKMANN -- EJNAR HERTZSPRUNG -- VICTOR FRANCIS HESS -- ANTONY HEWISH -- RUSSELL HULSE.

SIR JAMES JEANS -- SIR HAROLD SPENCER JONES -- JACOBUS KAPTEYN -- ROY P. KERR -- NIKOLAY ALEKSANDROVICH KOZYREV -- GERARD KUIPER -- BERTIL LINDBLAD -- MALCOLM LONGAIR -- EDWARD MILNE -- MARCEL MINNAERT -- WILLIAM W. MORGAN -- JAN OORT -- ERNEST ÖPIK -- SIR ROGER PENROSE -- SIR MARTIN RYLE -- CARL SAGAN -- MEGHNAD N. SAHA -- ALLAN SANDAGE -- FRANK SCHLESINGER -- MAARTEN SCHMIDT -- KARL SCHWARZSCHILD -- HARLOW SHAPLEY -- WILLEM DE SITTER -- VESTO SLIPHER -- BENGT STRÖMGREN -- OTTO STRUVE -- POL SWINGS -- JOSEPH H. TAYLOR, JR. -- CLYDE W. TOMBAUGH -- ROBERT TRUMPLER -- FRITZ ZWICKY -- GLOSSARY -- FOR FURTHER READING -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.