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(1977) Cosmology, history, and theology, Dordrecht, Springer.
I shall skip straight through the historical part in two leaps:964 A.D.: Abd-al-rahman al Sufi is the first to record on a map the dim light which, a millenium later, will open up to us the extragalactic universe.1667: An engraving appearing in a paper by Bouillaud relates what was then known about that same Andromeda nebula after the introduction of the first telescopes (Fig. 1).1923: The extragalactic world is reached: Hubble recognizes the true nature of Messier 31.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-8780-4_5
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Heidmann, J. (1977)., The expansion of the universe in the frame of conventional general relativity, in W. Yourgrau & A. D. Breck (eds.), Cosmology, history, and theology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 39-57.
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