The Adolfo Stahl lectures in astronomy, delivered in San Francisco, California, in 1916-17 and 1917-18, under the auspices of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
A collected series of public astronomy lectures given in San Francisco in 1916-18 under the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and published in 1919 for general audiences. Illustrations are halftone reproductions of observatory photographs, such as the Pleiades with its nebulosity, giving designers dense white star fields, soft gas clouds and deep black grounds.





















































































