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The correspondence between Einstein and de Sitter during 1916 and 1918, recently discovered in the archives of the Sterrewacht at Leiden provides a fascinating glimpse of the thinking of the two principal progenitors of modern cosmology.
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Kahn, C., Kahn, F. Letters from Einstein to de Sitter on the nature of the Universe. Nature 257, 451–454 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/257451a0
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