Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos

by Dennis Overbye

Stuart Clark says: This is a massively ambitious book, describing the way cosmology progressed in the 20th century through the stories of the people who made the advances

Andrew Lawrence says: If you want to know how astronomy really works then this is a book you should read. It is warts and all, about the competing personalities

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