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- catalog abstract ""Gribbin takes us through the history of cosmological discoveries, focusing in particular on the seventy years since the Big Bang model of the origin of the universe. He explains how conflicting views of the age of the universe and stars converged in the 1990s because scientists (including Gribbin) were able to use data from the Hubble Space Telescope that measured distances across the universe."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11639491.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Gribbin takes us through the history of cosmological discoveries, focusing in particular on the seventy years since the Big Bang model of the origin of the universe. He explains how conflicting views of the age of the universe and stars converged in the 1990s because scientists (including Gribbin) were able to use data from the Hubble Space Telescope that measured distances across the universe."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226) and index.".
- catalog description "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 measured the age of the universe -- Afterword: The big picture.".
- catalog extent "vi, 237 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300083467 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog subject "523.1 21".
- catalog subject "Cosmochronology.".
- catalog subject "Cosmology.".
- catalog subject "QB981 .G756 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 measured the age of the universe -- Afterword: The big picture.".
- catalog title "The birth of time : how astronomers measured the age of the universe / John Gribbin.".
- catalog type "text".