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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Adolfo Stahl lectures in astronomy. San Francisco, Printed for the Society by the Stanford University Press, 1919 (OCoLC)615210692 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: | Astronomical Society of the Pacific. |
| OCLC Number: | 2454183 |
| Description: | xiv, 257 p. front., illus., LIII pl. (incl. ports.) diagrs. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The solar system, by W.W. Campbell.--What we know about comets, by W.W. Campbell.--A total eclipse of the sun, by R.G. Aitken.--The moon, by R.G. Aitken.--The nebulae, by H.D. Curtis.--Astronomical discovery, by H.D. Curtis.--The important epochs in the development of astronomy, by R.J. Crawford.--Our nearest star, the sun, by C.E. St. John.--News from the stars, by R.G. Aitken.--Recent progress in the study of the motions of bodies in the solar system, by A.O. Leuschner.--The brightness of the stars, their distribution, colors, and motions, by F.H. Seares.--The 100-inch reflecting telescope, Mount Wilson. |
| Responsibility: | under the auspices of the Astronomical society of the Pacific. |
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