Table of Contents

Points of View: Shadows, Photons, Planets, and Life.- The Biological Universe Revisited.- Contingency and the Cosmic Perspective.- Grote Reber (1911–2002).- Dr Elizabeth Alexander: First Female Radio Astronomer.- Radio Astronomy in Holland Before 1960.- Jodrell Bank and the Meteor Velocity Controversy.- The Radiophysics Field Stations and the Early Development of Radio Astronomy.- Dark Matter and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory.- The Discovery of Sgr A*.- Radio Astronomy, Whatever that May be.- Telescopes Lofted to Space.- The History of Space Astronomy.- SAO During the Whipple Years.- The Transits of Venus and New Technologies.- And the Remaining 22 Photons.- Gn?monik? Techn?.- Light Work.