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