Un univers homogène de masse constante et de rayon croissant, rendant compte de la vitesse radiale des nébuleuses extra-galactiques

by Georges Henri Joseph Édouard LemaÎTre

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First edition

Louvain : Imprimerie des Établissements F. Ceuterick , 1927. First edition, the separately printed offprint, of the paper in which Georges Lemaître derived the expansion of the universe from general relativity and stated the linear relation between a galaxy’s distance and its velocity of recession — Hubble’s law — two years before Hubble, with a numerical value for the constant that now carries Hubble’s

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