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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 182. Chapters: Albert Einstein, Charles Babbage, Fred Hoyle, Henri Poincare, Edwin Hubble, Arthur Eddington, John Herschel, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Riccardo Giacconi, Albert Abraham Michelson, Henry Norris Russell, William McCrea, William Henry Smyth, Andre-Louis Danjon, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Thomas Gold, Francis Baily, Edward James Stone, Hannes Alfven, Giovanni Schiaparelli, James Van Allen, Urbain Le Verrier, Stephen Hawking, John Couch Adams, Viktor Hambardzumyan, Fritz Zwicky, Arthur Robert Hinks, George Biddell Airy, Otto Struve, Walter Munk, Max Wolf, Simon Newcomb, John T. Houghton, Caroline Herschel, James Hopwood Jeans, Hermann Struve, Thomas Brisbane, James Dunlop, Vitaly Ginzburg, Harold Urey, Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Bernard Lovell, Ernest William Brown, Allan Sandage, Leon Mestel, Peter Goldreich, Richard Christopher Carrington, Edward Emerson Barnard, Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Hermann Goldschmidt, Antonie Pannekoek, David Gill, Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Dan McKenzie, Gerald Maurice Clemence, Hermann Bondi, Rashid Sunyaev, Johann Franz Encke, Martin Ryle, Harlow Shapley, Sydney Chapman, George Ellery Hale, Andrew Ainslie Common, Harold Jeffreys, John N. Bahcall, Asaph Hall, Fred Lawrence Whipple, Edward Arthur Milne, Ira Sprague Bowen, Jan Oort, Bohdan Paczy ski, Willem de Sitter, William Huggins, Vera Rubin, Margaret Burbidge, Albrecht Unsold, Donald Lynden-Bell, Ernst Opik, Maurice Ewing, Richard van der Riet Woolley, Jim Peebles, George Darwin, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Vesto Slipher, Frank Watson Dyson, Peter Andreas Hansen, Carl Ludwig Christian Rumker, Isaac Roberts, Walter Baade, Jacobus Kapteyn, John Jackson, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Alfred Fowler, Keith Edward Bullen, Lyman Spitzer, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, Donald Edward Osterbrock, Simon White, Warren ...