The Oxford Companion to Cosmology

This is a useful introduction into the topic of cosmology and how it has developed into a subject separate from astronomy. It is a step above a popular science book and is for the reader who really wants to get their teeth into the science of this subject. It starts with a chapter summarising the development of cosmology as a separate area of study from the observations of Kepler in the 1600s through Einstein to the current models and the findings of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, which were first released in 2003. The chapter ends with a short discussion...