Abstract
Acknowledgments Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Cosmological concepts at the end of the Middle Ages 3. Nebulae as a new astronomical phenomenon 4. On the construction of the Heavens 5. Island universes turn into astronomical facts: a universe of galaxies 6. The early cosmology of Einstein and de Sitter 7. The dynamical universe of Friedmann 8. Redshifts: how to reconcile Slipher and de Sitter? 9. Lemaitre discovers the expanding universe 10. Hubble's contribution of 1929 11. The breakthrough for the expanding universe 12. Hubble's anger about de Sitter 13. Robertson and Tolman join the game 14. The Einstein-de Sitter universe 15. Are Sun and Earth older than the universe? 16. In search of alternative tracks 17. The seed for the Big Bang 18. Summary and postscript Appendix References Index.
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