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ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1.The Science and Philosophy of Cosmology -- 1.2.An Overview -- ch. 2 The Homogeneous Universe -- 2.1.Einstein's Cosmological Principle -- 2.2.Early Evidence of Inhomogeneity -- 2.3.Early Evidence of Homogeneity: Isotropy -- 2.4.Early Evidence of Homogeneity: Counts and Redsh...

3.6.4.Mass Density Measurements: Hubble to the Revolution -- 3.6.5.Mass Density Measurements: Assessments -- 3.7.Concluding Remarks -- ch. 4 Fossils: Microwave Radiation and Light Elements -- 4.1.Thermal Radiation in an Expanding Universe -- 4.2.Gamow's Scenario -- 4.2.1.Gamow's 1948 Papers -- 4.2.2...

4.6.Nucleosynthesis and the Baryon Mass Density -- 4.7.Why Was the Hot Big Bang Cosmology Reinvented? -- ch. 5 How Cosmic Structure Grew -- 5.1.The Gravitational Instability Picture -- 5.1.1.Lemaitre's Solution -- 5.1.2.Lifshitz's Perturbation Analyses -- 5.1.3.Nongravitational Interaction of Baryon...

6.6.What Is the Nature of the Subluminal Matter? -- ch. 7 Nonbaryonic Dark Matter -- 7.1.Hot Dark Matter -- 7.1.1.Apparent Detection of a Neutrino Rest Mass -- 7.2.Cold Dark Matter -- 7.2.1.What Happened in 1977 -- 7.2.2.The Situation in the Early 1980s -- 7.2.3.The Search for Dark Matter Detection...