From the Realm of the Nebulae to Populations of Galaxies

1. Extragalactic Astronomy: From Pioneers to Big Science
Roberto Rampazzo, Mauro D’Onofrio, Simone Zaggia, James M. Lattis, Martha P. Haynes, Riccardo Giovanelli, Valentina Karachentseva, Malcolm S. Longair, Per-Olof Lindblad, Alvio Renzini, Reinaldo Ramos Carvalho, Norio Kaifu, Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn, Stanislav George Djorgovski, Luciana Bianchi, Daniela Calzetti, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Françoise Combes, Cesare Chiosi, Jack W. Sulentic

2. The Milky Way and the Local Group
Roberto Rampazzo, Mauro D’Onofrio, Simone Zaggia, James M. Lattis, Pieter C. Kruit, Antonella Vallenari, Daniela Calzetti, Barry F. Madore, Valentina Karachentseva, Rodrigo Ibata, Carme Gallart, George Lake, Brent R. Tully, Gerald F. Gilmore

3. Family Traits of Galaxies: From the Tuning Fork to a Physical Classification in a Multi-Wavelength Context
Roberto Rampazzo, Mauro D’Onofrio, Simone Zaggia, Debra M. Elmegreen, Eija Laurikainen, Pierre-Alain Duc, Carme Gallart, Didier Fraix-Burnet

4. The Anatomy of Galaxies
Mauro D’Onofrio, Roberto Rampazzo, Simone Zaggia, Malcolm S. Longair, Laura Ferrarese, Paola Marziani, Jack W. Sulentic, Pieter C. Kruit, Eija Laurikainen, Debra M. Elmegreen, Françoise Combes, Giuseppe Bertin, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Riccardo Giovanelli, Daniela Calzetti, David L. Moss, Francesca Matteucci, Stanislav George Djorgovski, Didier Fraix-Burnet, Alister W. McK. Graham, Brent R. Tully

5. The Impact of Surveys
Roberto Rampazzo, Mauro D’Onofrio, Simone Zaggia, George Paturel, Alessandro Boselli, Laura Ferrarese, Bianca M. Poggianti, Nils A. S. Bergvall, Valentina Karachentseva, Martha P. Haynes, Riccardo Giovanelli, Luciana Bianchi, Ginevra Trinchieri, Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn

6. In Pursuit of High Redshift Galaxies
Roberto Rampazzo, Mauro D’Onofrio, Simone Zaggia, Stanislav George Djorgovski, Debra M. Elmegreen, Bianca M. Poggianti, Daniela Calzetti, Françoise Combes, Malcolm S. Longair, Volker Bromm

7. The New Boundaries of the Galaxy Concept
Mauro D’Onofrio, Roberto Rampazzo, Simone Zaggia, Curtis Struck, Luciana Bianchi, Bianca M. Poggianti, Jack W. Sulentic, Brent R. Tully, Paola Marziani, Malcolm S. Longair, Francesca Matteucci, Luca Ciotti, Jaan Einasto, Pavel Kroupa

8. The Physics of Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Mauro D’Onofrio, Roberto Rampazzo, Simone Zaggia, George Lake, Cesare Chiosi, Gabriella Lucia, Jaan Einasto, Pavel Kroupa, Reinaldo Ramos Carvalho, Alvio Renzini, Luca Ciotti, Francesca Matteucci, David L. Moss, Malcolm S. Longair

9. New Eyes for Galaxies Investigation
Mauro D’Onofrio, Simone Zaggia, Roberto Rampazzo, Antonella Vallenari, Gerald F. Gilmore, Paola Marziani, Massimo Stiavelli, Daniela Calzetti, Luciana Bianchi, Ginevra Trinchieri, Volker Bromm, Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn, Norio Kaifu, Françoise Combes, David L. Moss, George Paturel

10. Lights and Shadows on Galaxies Understanding
Mauro D’Onofrio, Roberto Rampazzo, Simone Zaggia

Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Cosmology, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics