From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Man's view of the universe is widening today, as it did once before in
the early days of big telescopes and photographic plates. Modern man, by
means of radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray astronomy, can
penetrate the universe to depths never before explored. Phillip James
Edwin Peebles has written a pioneering work in this newly defined area
of investigation. Intended to bridge the chasm between classical
textbooks on cosmology and modern developments, Physical Cosmology
serves as a guide to current points of debate in a rapidly changing
field.
Originally published in 1972.
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