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Table of Contents: “…Time / Robert Andrews Millikan -- Time and change in history / John Campbell Meriam -- On the lifetime of a galaxy / Harlow Shapley -- The beginnings of time-measurement and the origins of our calendar / James Henry Breasted -- The time concept and time sense among cultured and uncultured peoples / Daniel Webster Hering -- What is time? …”

Table of Contents: “…Dick -- Bringing cosmos to culture : Harlow Shapley and the uses of cosmic evolution / JoAnn Palmeri.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1: Realm Of The Atom -- Atoms and quarks -- Atoms in motion / Richard P Feynman -- Large and the small / Kenneth W Ford -- Gay tribe of electrons / George Gamow -- Radioactive substances / Pierre Curie -- E=mc² / Albert Einstein -- Man who listened / Robert P Crease and Charles C Mann -- Theory of electrons and positrons / Paul A M Dirac -- Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory / Werner Heisenberg -- Uncertainty and complementarity / Heinz R Pagels -- Schrodinger's cat / Heinz R Pagels -- Unified theory of physics / Timothy Ferris -- Butterflies and super strings / Freeman J Dyson -- Time and space -- Distinction of past and future / Richard P Feynman -- Second law of thermodynamics / Max Planck -- Age of the elements / David N Schramm -- Two masses / Isaac Asimov -- Einstein's law of gravitation / Bertrand Russell -- Black holes / Roger Penrose -- Black holes ain't so black / Stephen W Hawking -- Part 2: Wider Universe -- Sun and beyond -- Total eclipse / Annie Dillard -- Astride the comet / Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan -- Cosmic terrorist / Richard Muller -- I think I see it / Richard Muller -- Classifying the stars / Annie J Cannon -- How a supernova explodes / Hans A Bethe and Gerald Brown -- Measuring the universe / Harlow Shapley -- Milky Way galaxy / Bart J Bok -- Structure of the universe -- Cosmology: the quest to understand the creation and expansion of the universe / Allan Sandage -- Exploration of space / Edwin Hubble -- Spherical space / Arthur Stanley Eddington -- Primeval atom / Georges Lemaitre -- New physics and the universe / James Trefil -- Let there be light: modern cosmogony and biblical creation / Owen Gingerich -- Beginnings and endings -- First three minutes / Steven Weinberg -- Magic furnace / Harald Fritzsch -- Origin of the universe / Alan Lightman -- How will the world end? …”