The birth of time : how astronomers measured the age of the universe / John Gribbin.
Gribbin, John, 1946-
1999
QB981 .G756 1999 (Mapit)
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Title The birth of time : how astronomers measured the age of the universe / John Gribbin.
Author Gribbin, John, 1946-
ISBN 0300083467 (alk. paper)
Publication Details New Haven : Yale University Press, c1999.
Language English
Description vi, 237 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number QB981 .G756 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 523.1
Note Previously published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226) and index.
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Introduction: The age controversy: How wrong is wrong?
All things must pass: The discovery of cosmic time
Age limits: The oldest things in the universe
Across the universe: The first cosmic distance scale
Into the blue: Beyond the Milky Way
Hubble's Law: A universe with a beginning
Revisionist cosmology: Extending the age of the universe
New rulers: From controversy to consensus
When time began: How we measures the age of the universe
Afterword: The big picture.

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