THE establishment of big bang cosmology will be viewed as one of the major achievements of the 20th century. In writing the history of what he thinks is a great controversy within this story - namely the battle that raged in the 1950s and 1960s between those who insisted that the universe exists in a steady-state and those who argued that it evolved from a singular initial state (the big bang) - Helge Kragh has given us a comprehensive and scholarly treatment of modern cosmology.
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