, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1947, 1947 Hardcover, 256 pages, EN, 225 x 155 mm, rare but very wanted, book itself is in good condition, the dustjacket covered with plastic layer has it's marks of time, with some illustrations in b/w, . ISBN 9780313201127.
Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître RAS Associate was a Jesuit trained Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first to identify that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by a theory of an expanding universe, which was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble. He was the first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law, or the Hubble-Lemaître law, and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article. Lemaître also proposed what later became known as the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the universe, initially calling it the "hypothesis of the primeval atom".
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Figaro illustré, 1890. 9 fascicules en un volume, demi-reliure cuir.
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