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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

How do we know that the earth travels around the sun, the universe is billions of years old, and stars are trillions of miles away? Rocky Kolb tells the fascinating story of the people and ideas that have brought us such knowledge of our planet and the universe, giving realistic portraits of astronomers like Tycho, Kepler, Galileo, Herschel, and Hubble. Beginning in 1572 with Tycho's discovery that the heavens can change, and ending with the Big Bang of the 20th Century, this is a hugely entertaining and witty account of the quest to discover the universe.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.
-Foreword.

-Preface.

-1. Eyes on the Skies.

-Part 1. The Solar System.

-2. Smashing the Celestial Spheres.
-3. Wars of the Worlds.
-4. The Galileo Equation.
-5. Newton at a Distance.

-Part 2. The Galaxy.

-6. The Third Dimension.
-7. Islands in the Sky.

-Part 3. The Universe.

-8. The Expanding Fog.
-9. A Matter of Degrees.
-10. Primordial Soup.
-11. The Raw Edge.

-The Devil in the Details.

-Bibliography.

-Permissions, Sources, and Credits.

-Acknowledgments.

-Index.