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1. Skies of Sumer 2. Rise of Rational Cosmology 3. Losing Faith 4. Return to Reason 5. Doubt and Discovery 6. A Universe Which Obeys Laws 7. A Simple Paradox 8. The Facts of Light 9. The Cosmic Distance Scale 10. An Expanding Universe

11. Evolutionary Cosmology 12. The Big Bang: A Universe Growing Up 13. Evidence Mounts 14. Return to Geometry 15. Light and Gravity: The Genius of Einstein 16. The Importance of Gravity 17. From a Black Hole to a Finite Universe 18. The Fate of the Universe: Testing Our Ideas 19. A Perspective on Existence 20. Mankind in the Universe

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