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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This biography of Edwin Hubble (After whom the Hubble Space Telescope is named) has been acclaimed by professionals and laymen alike. It is both the biography of an extraordinary human being and the story of the greatest quest in the history of astronomy since the Copernican revolution.

(Extracted from the dust jacket).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-A Note to the Reader.

-1- Marshfield.

-2- "An Awful Moment".

-3- "A Thing So Outlandish".

-4- A Son of Queen's.

-5- Heaven's Gate.

-6- Reconnaissance.

-7- The Cosmic Archipielago.

-8- Uncharted Waters.

-9- Mariner of the Nebulae.

-10- "Your Husband's Work Is Beautiful"

-11- "Almost a Miracle".

-12- "Now Whom Do We Want to Meet?"

-13- Landlocked.

-14- Dark Passage.

-15- Home Is the Sailor.

-Epilogue.

-Notes and Abbreviations of Frequently Used Sources.

-Bibliography.

-Acknowledgments.

-Index.

OUR REVIEW

Edwin Hubble will no doubt be remembered by generations to come. Thanks to his genius and to that of his colleagues, this distinguished astrophysician set the bases that define the structure of the current Universe, its origin and its past, its evolution and its future. His colleagues nowadays contribute more and more proof to confirm that Hubble was right: the Universe is expanding. It is the mission of modern astronomy to uncover each one of the fringes that this great theoretical finding means.

Het, even if the work done by Hubble will be valued with a greater justice in the decades to come, it already is possible to speak about him as a man and as a scientist, as well as study at the same time the writings he left us. This is precisely the objective of this book.

Gale Christianson undertakes the biography of this scientist with an unparalelled accuracy. His life and the environment where he moved about are clearly depicted in the successive pages of this work. The author presents us some of the writings by Hubble, respecting even his proverbial bad spelling, which makes his peculiar character even more alive.

This is a very complete work indeed, which perhaps only lacks some photographs, yet on the other hand it will be enjoyed by both the aficionados to the history of science and the lovers of astronomy.