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History has not come to an end. Already by 1997, as the Hipparcos catalogue was being lodged in scientific libraries around the world, astronomers across Europe were pooling ideas for a yetmore ambitious experiment to map the stars from space.
If you remained a pupil, you served your teacher badly.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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Perryman, M. (2010). The Future. In: The Making of History's Greatest Star Map. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11602-5_15
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