Day We Found The Universe, The(ISBN=9780307276605)

    The riveting and mesmerizing story behind a watershed period in human history, the discovery of the startling size and true nature of our universe.
    On New Years Day in 1925, a young Edwin Hubble released his finding that our Universe was far bigger, eventually measured as a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed. Hubble’s proclamation sent shock waves through the scientific community. Six years later, in a series of meetings at Mount Wilson Observatory, Hubble and others convinced Albert Einstein that the Universe was not static but in fact expanding. Here Marcia Bartusiak reveals the key players, battles of will, clever insights, incredible technology, ground-breaking research, and wrong turns made by the early investigators of the heavens as they raced to uncover what many consider one of most significant discoveries in scientific history.

　　Marcia Bartusiak is an award-winning author whose previous books include Through a Universe Darkly, Thursday’s Universe, Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony, and Archives of the Universe. Her work has appeared in such publications as National Geographic, Smithsonian, Discover, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. She teaches at MIT and lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts

Preface /January 1, 1925
Setting Out
  1. The Little Republic of Science
  2. A Rather Remarkable Number of Nebulae
  3. Grander Than the Truth
  4. Such Is.the Progress of Astronomy in the Wild and Wooly West
  5. My Regfirds to the Squashes
  6. It Is Worthy of Notice
Exploration
  7. Empire Builder
  8. The Solar System Is OffCenter find Consequently Man Is Too
  9. He Surely Looks Like the Fourth Dimension!
  10. Go at Each Other "Hammer and Tongs"
  11. Adonis
  12. On the Brink of a Big Discovery--oi" Maybe a Big Paradox
Discovery
  13. Countless Whole Worlds... Strewn All Over the Sky
  14. Using the 100-Inch Telescope the Way It Should Be Used
  15. Your Calculations Are Correct, but Your Physical Insight Is Abominable
  16. Started Off with a Bang Whatever Happened to...
Notes
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index