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Our current understanding of the nature and origins of the large scale structure of the Universe has arison from the very long sequence of earlier understanding, with size and time scales and complexity increasing more or less monotonically. This history is explored beginning with ideas from pre-literate societies and ending with some fine tuning of the current “consensus cosmology”.
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Trimble, V. (2005). Constructing the Cosmos, from Sunboats to Superclusters. In: Shapiro, M.M., Stanev, T., Wefel, J.P. (eds) Neutrinos and Explosive Events in the Universe. NATO Science Series, vol 209. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3748-1_2
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