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University Of Chicago Press [Published date: 1996]. Soft cover, 420 pp. In good+ condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Light creasing to spine but the binding tight. One page has a sentence highlighted in yellow. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Includes an 8 page section with black and white photos. In 1923 Edwin Hubble confirmed the existence of other galaxies. By the end of the decade, he proved that the universe is expanding, thus laying the very cornerstone of the big bang theory. A revealing portrait of a scientific genius at work, this book also offers an incisive narrative of the history of astronomy, and an evocation of what we see when gazing at the stars.