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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rudaux, Lucien, 1874-1947. Larousse encyclopedia of astronomy. New York, Prometheus Press, 1962 (OCoLC)607821810 Online version: Rudaux, Lucien, 1874-1947. Larousse encyclopedia of astronomy. New York, Prometheus Press, 1962 (OCoLC)629800997 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lucien Rudaux; Gérard De Vaucouleurs |
| OCLC Number: | 1405892 |
| Notes: | Translation of Astronomie; les astres, l'univers. |
| Description: | vi, 506 p. illus. (part col.) charts. 30 cm. |
| Contents: | Splendour of the heavens: Stars in space -- Our observatory, the Earth -- Empire of the Sun: Solar system -- Earth as a planet -- Moon -- Eclipses, occultations and tides -- Planets --Comets -- Meteors and meteorites -- Sun -- In space -- Realm of the stars: Stars in the sky -- Double and variable stars -- Stars as suns -- Nature of the stars -- Galaxy -- Extra-galactic nebulae and the expansion of the universe Past and future -- Astronomical instruments and techniques: Instruments and methods of measurement -- Spectroscopic analysis and its astronomical applications -- Philosophical, scientific and technical value of astronomy. |
| Other Titles: | Astronomie. |
| Responsibility: | by Lucien Rudaux and G. de Vaucouleurs. With an introd. by F.L. Whipple. |
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