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Primitive man began looking to the skies long before the advent of recorded history. He found strange lights and moving dots, and peopled the heavens with their gods. From Pythagoras to Copernicus, from Kepler to Lowell, and from Hale to Hubble, this lecture outlines humanity’s search for knowledge in the skies. The first primitive telescope in 1610 allowed Galileo to prove that Earth was not the center of the universe. In the 1920s Edwin Hubble made the universe far grander than ever imagined. And his namesake the Hubble Space Telescope has given us vistas almost beyond imagination. See into the past and the future.