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List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations of manuscript sources; Introduction; Part I. The Nineteenth-Century Background: 1. Early nineteenth-century statistical astronomy; 2. Statistical astronomy and the Milky Way Galaxy; Part II. Statistical Cosmology, 1890?1924: 3. Seeliger and stellar density; 4. Kapteyn and the distribution of stars; 5. Statistical astronomy as a research program, 1900?15; 6. Statistical cosmology as a research program, 1915?22; 7. Internationalization of astronomy; Part III. Statistical Cosmology and the Second Astronomical Revolution: 8. The decline of a research program; 9. Conclusion: research programs in transition; Appendix 1: Seeliger?s star-ratio function; Appendix 2: Seeliger?s density theorem; Bibliographical notes; Index.

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