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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book still in great condition. Cover and corners has some wear but pages are free from notes and in great condition. Spine faded. Repair on cover. See images. A great book.

About the book >.>.> Man’s curiosity about the universe in which he lives can be traced back to the beginnings of human records. The wonder and excitement engendered by this study have been the subject of much literature including poetry (Lucretius Omar Khayyam Shelley and many others). In the last fifty years the sub- ject has become a formal science in the sense that the theor ies of cosmology can now be confronted with an increasing weight of observational evidence. We feel that a subject of such philosophical and scien- tific interest has much to contribute to our culture and to the education of pupils at school and students at University. However the difficulties of the general theory of relativity and of establishing the connection between theory and observa- tion have curtailed the use of the subject as an element in education. This book represents an attempt to open up the path to the frontiers of knowledge in cosmology by using only the mathematics of the last school or early University years. This simplification is liable to mislead the superficial but we have attempted to work largely with equations though