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Cosmology: Mankind's Grand Investigation

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Cosmology: Mankind's Grand Investigation
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Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
ISBN/ASIN: 0030456231
ISBN-13: 9780030456237
Number of pages: 129

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Cosmology is the empirical study of the organization, structure and evolution of the Universe. This study is not simply a dispassionate exercise in physics and math but rather a reflection of our insatiable desire to understand our environment and to feel connected to it.

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