Discovery of the Expansion of the Universe

Sidney van den Bergh

Discovery of the Expansion of the Universe

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arxiv 1108.0709 v2 pith:PX3BKTX2 submitted 2011-08-02 physics.hist-ph astro-ph.CO

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The myth that the expansion of the Universe was discovered by Hubble was first propagated by Humason (1931). The true nature of this discovery turns out to have been both more complex and more interesting.

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Carl Wirtz' article from 1924 in Astronomische Nachrichten on the radial motions of spiral nebulae
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An English translation of Wirtz's 1924 paper, with a historical argument that Wirtz pioneered the cosmological interpretation of galaxy redshifts as expansion.

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