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Acknowledgments | 7 | |
Foreword | 11 | |
Preface: Year 2000: An Ancient Comet Returns | 13 | |
1 | 1842: To Sail beyond the Sunset: Portraits of Discovery | 17 |
2 | 1965: Passport for Discovery | 26 |
3 | 1572: Tycho Brahe: A Swashbuckling Astronomer | 37 |
4 | 1610: Galileo and the Interpretation of Discovery | 47 |
5 | 1632: Galileo and the Consequence of Discovery | 55 |
6 | 1656: Christiaan Huygens: It Is Surrounded by a Ring | 63 |
7 | 1682: Edmond Halley: Discovery by Calculation | 70 |
8 | 1760: Charles Messier: The Comet Hunter of Cluny | 76 |
9 | 1781: Caroline and William Herschel | 84 |
10 | 1846: Adams, Leverrier, and the Scandal over Neptune | 94 |
11 | 1912: Henrietta Leavitt, Harlow Shapley, and Our Place in the Milky Way Galaxy | 102 |
12 | 1919: Eddington, Einstein, Mercury, and an Eclipse | 109 |
13 | 1924: Edwin Hubble: The Man Who Defined the Universe | 118 |
14 | 1930: Clyde Tombaugh and Pluto | 130 |
15 | 1948: Bart Bok and His Globules | 142 |
16 | 1951: The Milky Way Is a Spiral Galaxy | 151 |
17 | 1963: Seyfert Galaxies and Quasars | 156 |
18 | 1979: Using a Galaxy as a Telescope: Gravitational Lenses and Einstein Rings | 162 |
19 | 1993: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night | 167 |
20 | 1999: Finding Planets around Other Stars | 175 |
21 | 1971: Acquainted with the Night: O'Meara and Summerfield | 187 |
22 | 1988: Jean Mueller: Of Supernovae and Songs | 194 |
23 | 2001: To Discover an Idea: The Cosmic Vision of Arthur C. Clarke | 200 |
Epilogue | 209 | |
Notes | 211 | |
Index | 225 |
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