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Tables of Contents for The Universe Unfolding
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The plates are to be found between pages 214 and 215
List of Milne lecturers
ix
Introduction
1
2
1 Comets: a matter of life and death (1977)
3
20
Sir Fred Hoyle FRS
2 Gravitation, ancient eclipses, and mountains (1978)
23
10
Professor R.A. Lyttleton FRS
3 E.A. Milne: his part in the development of modern astrophysics (1979)
33
18
Professor S. Chandrasekhar FRS
4 Our universe and others (1980)
51
18
Professor Sir Martin J. Rees FRS
5 Astrology, religion and science (1981)
69
16
Professor T.G. Cowling FRS
6 The origin of cosmic rays (1982)
85
26
Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS
7 Statistics, geometry and the cosmos (1983)
111
12
Professor David G. Kendall FRS
8 The earth's atmosphere: ideas old and new (1984)
123
30
Dr D.G. King-Hele FRS
9 Time, vacuum and cosmos (1985)
153
18
Professor Sir William McCrea FRS
10 The age of the observable universe (1986)
171
26
Professor W.A. Fowler
11 Geometry, topology and physics (1987)
197
16
Professor Sir Michael Atiyah OM FRS
12 Polarization--its message in astronomy (1988)
213
24
Professor V. Radhakrishnan
13 Carbon--the element of life: what is its origin on Earth? (1989)
237
8
Professor T. Gold FRS
14 Cosmology and particle physics: a new synthesis (1990)
245
12
Professor D.W. Sciama FRS
15 Hunting for comets and planets (1991)
257
18
Professor Freeman J. Dyson FRS
16 Modern cosmology--a critical assessment (1992)
275
40
Professor Malcolm S. Longair
17 Binary pulsars and relativistic gravity (1993)
315
20
Professor J.H. Taylor
18 Taking the measure of the universe (1994)
335
18
Professor Robert P. Kirshner
19 Observing the Big Bang (1995)
353
28
Dr J.C. Mather
20 The complexity of our singular universe (1996)
381
Professor Sir Roger Penrose FRS