Table of Contents: “...Youth in Oegstgeest and Leiden -- Kapateyn and Groningen -- Via Yale to Leiden -- Rotation and Dynamics of the Galaxy -- The Structure of our and Other Galaxies -- The Watershed: World War Ii -- Opening New Avenues -- Fron Kootwijk to Dwingeloo...”

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Table of Contents: “... Internationalism, Kapteyn and the Dutch Pipeline -- 7 Growing Astronomers for Export: Dutch Astronomers in the United States before World War II -- 8 Kapteyn and Cosmology -- 9 Kapteyn, Shapley, and their Universes -- 10 Kapteyn and the Selected Areas: a Personal...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- 6 The IAU and Political Persecutions in the 1930’s -- 7 1938–1948; World War II: Interruption and Recovery -- 8 1948–1958; Flourishing Science and Disturbing Politics -- 9 The China Conflict -- 10 1958–1964; Reforms, Berkeley 1961, and Hamburg 1964 -- 11...”

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