More readings and sources: ☑️a Biographical Memoir by Margaret Burbidge: https://t.co/QDpsVS0cWP ☑️Bulletin of the @AAS_Publishing https://t.co/9zqno5VBc2 ☑️A Life for Astronomy https://t.co/aBX9YbToNK ☑️The World of Galaxies https://t.co/qDqhCmnlwJ https:
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Rubin: it is difficult to reconstruct the circumstances which prevented many astronomers from accepting the notion that we inhabited a flattened Local Supercluster - de Vaucouleurs is almost solely responsible for convincing most of us of its reality https
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As Corwin recalls: "Large scale structures such as the Local Supercluster would violate the so-called Cosmological Principle, so were generally ignored by cosmologists until redshift-based distances became available for large numbers of galaxies." https://