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| Preface | |
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| Being in the Right Place at the Right Time | |
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| Two men walking | |
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| Funny things, universes | |
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| The importance of place | |
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| Aristotle's spherical universe | |
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| Ptolemy's 'Heath Robinson' universe | |
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| Copernican revolutions | |
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| The Earnestness of Being Important | |
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| Special times and special places | |
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| Democratic laws | |
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| The changing universe | |
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| The nebular hypothesis | |
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| Life in an Edwardian universe | |
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| The decaying universe | |
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| Karl Schwarzschild: the man who knew too much | |
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| Einstein's Universes | |
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| Completing a Copernican vision | |
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| Einstein's insight | |
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| A digression | |
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| The creation of Einstein's universe of motionless matter | |
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| The second universe: de Sitter s universe of matterless motion | |
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| Friedmann's universes of matter in motion | |
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| Lema�tre's universes | |
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| The universe of Einstein and de Sitter | |
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| Tolman's oscillating universe | |
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| Lema�tre and Tolman's kinky universe | |
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| Milne's universe (and Newton s universes) | |
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| Expected Universes: the Rococo Period | |
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| Fractal universes | |
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| Dr Kasner's universe | |
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| Dirac's universe-where gravity decays | |
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| Einstein and Rosen�s undulating universe | |
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| Something Completely Different | |
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| A Swiss-cheese universe | |
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| Perturbed universes | |
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| Schr�dinger's universe | |
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| G�del's spinning universe | |
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| The Steady Statesmen Come and Go with a Bang | |
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| A universe that always was, is and is to come | |
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| A table-top universe | |
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| The electric universe | |
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| Hot universes | |
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| Universes, Warts and All | |
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| Turbulent universes | |
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| Distorted universes: from one to nine | |
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| Smooth universes and a new observational window | |
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| Chaotic universes | |
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| Mixmaster universes | |
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| Magnetic universes | |
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| The universes of Brans and Dicke | |
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| Matter-antimatter universes | |
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| The Beginning for Beginners | |
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| Singular universes | |
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| Which universes are singular? | |
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| Cold and tepid universes | |
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| An unexpectedly simpler universe | |
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| And a unified way of thinking | |
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| Brave New Worlds | |
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| Asymmetric universes | |
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| Problem universes | |
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| Inflationary universes | |
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| Chaotic inflationary universes | |
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| Eternal inflationary universes | |
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| Suddenly, the universe seems simpler again | |
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| The many universes run out of control | |
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| Post-Modern Universes | |
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| Random universes | |
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| Probable universes | |
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| Anthropic universes | |
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| Possible universes | |
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| Home-made universes | |
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| Naturally selected universes | |
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| Fake universes | |
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| Universes where nothing is original | |
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| Boltzmann s universe | |
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| Fringe Universes | |
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| Wrap-around universes | |
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| Quantum universes | |
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| A self-creating universe | |
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| Colliding universes | |
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| The dying of the light | |
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| Hyperuniverses | |
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| The Runaway Universe | |
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| The best-buy universe | |
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| The preposterous universe | |
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| The puzzling universe | |
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| Notes | |
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| Picture Credits | |
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| Index | |