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1. Introduction; 2. Early history of the dark matter hypothesis; 3. Thestability of disk galaxies: the dark halo solutions; 4. Direct evidence:extended rotation curves of spiral galaxies; 5. The maximum disk: lighttraces mass; 6. Cosmology and the birth of astroparticle physics; 7. Clustersrevisited: missing mass found; 8. CDM confronts galaxy rotation curves; 9.The new cosmology: dark matter is not enough; 10. An alternative to darkmatter: Modified Newtonian Dynamics; 11. Seeing dark matter: the theory andpractice of detection; 12. Reflections: a personal point of view; Appendix;References; Index.