  The recent literature of astronomy and cosmology has included a good many
suggestions for "who first recognized the expansion of the universe?" with
cases having been made for Lemaitre, Lundmark, de Sitter, Slipher, Shapley,
Friedmann, Wirtz, and perhaps others. I touch on these but also mention others
(some of whose names have not come down to us) who might reasonably be credited
with some part of the basic idea, but conclude that "Hubble's Law" is the right
choice ("because it was discovered by Lundmark" in accordance with Stigler's
Law). Of course there are a couple of previously unsung heroes (Dose and
Zoellner), and the discussion bears some traces of its origin as an
after-dinner talk. The full context goes back to ideas from China and forward
to the struggle to correct Hubble's erroneous value of his constant.
