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SINCE its first announcement by Dr. E. P. Hubble in 1929, the existence of a linear relation between Velocity’ and distance among the extra-galactic nebulae has excited a great deal of theoretical interest, the more so since it appeared to be a direct confirmation of the instability of the Einstein universe predicted by Lemaitre. It was therefore not unfitting that the discoverer of the relation, himself a Rhodes scholar, should have been invited to deliver the Rhodes Memorial Lectures in Oxford on October 29 and November 12 and 26, or that he should have used this opportunity to present the observer's interpretation of the wealth of material since accumulated on this problem by himself. The lectures, which dealt in turn with the observable region, the role of the red-shifts, and possible models of the universe, have revealed that a static universe with a hitherto unsuspected dependence of light frequency on distance is probably more acceptable than one or other of the homogeneous expanding models of general relativity.
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P., H. The Observational Approach to Cosmology. Nature 138, 1001–1002 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381001a0
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