The birth of time
Subtitle: how astronomers measured the age of the universe
By: John Gribbin.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Cosmology; Cosmochronology
Description: "Gribbin takes us through the history of cosmological discoveries, focusing in particular on the seventy years since the Big Bang model of the origin of the universe. He explains how conflicting views of the age of the universe and stars converged in the 1990s because scientists (including Gribbin) were able to use data from the Hubble Space Telescope that measured distances across the universe."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226) and index.
Previously published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.