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Hubble and Shapley - Two Early Giants of Observational Cosmology
Sidney van den Bergh
Observational cosmology of the first decades of the Twentieth Century was dominated by two giants: Edwin Hubble and Harlow Shapley. Hubble's major contributions were to the study a…
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Discovery of the Expansion of the Universe
Sidney van den Bergh
The myth that the expansion of the Universe was discovered by Hubble was first propagated by Humason (1931). The true nature of this discovery turns out to have been both more comp…