The following is the Editor's Summary of a book review of "Europe's Quest for the Universe" written by Lodewijk Woltjer and reviewed by Giovanni Bignami. From Nature Contents this morning.
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Editor's Summary
15 June 2006
Looking up
Astronomy is one area in which European cooperation has been an out-standing success. In
Europe's Quest for the Universe, Lodewijk Woltjer, former director general of the European Southern Observatory, has written the history. Giovanni Bignami reviews it favourably: make it required reading for students, he says, as it takes the right approach to the phenomenology of the Universe. The first chapter is downloadable from
http://tinyurl.com/gsplk.