Accounting for the enormous and amazing development cosmology has made in the past ten years, this long awaited
second edition of Malcolm Longair's highly appreciated textbook has been extensively and thoroughly updated.
It tells the story of modern astrophysical cosmology from the perspective of one of its most important and
fundamental problems . how did the galaxies come about? Longair uses this approach to introduce the whole of what
may be called "classical cosmology". Moreover he describes how the study of the origin of galaxies and larger-scale
structures in the Universe has provided us with unique and direct information about the physics of the very early
Universe. The material is presented in an informal pedagogical manner. This includes a comprehensive introduction
to relativistic astrophysics needed for the clarification of cosmological ideas.

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