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 (1919)
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Aitken, Robert Grant, 1864-1951 · San Francisco Stanford University Press · leaf 182
o general rules of conductfor discovery. (Turner) It would be quite possible, then, to limit our treatment ofthe subject exclusively to instruments, the purely mechanicaladjuncts of discovery, and to describe the improvements in ourtelescopes, meridian circles, zenith telescopes,… … PLATE XXV. The 36-Inch Refractor, Lick Observatory. Astronomical Discovery 111 depends upon such tools. Without the telescope, astronomycould have advanced but little beyond the pre-Galilean epoch.Science, like civilization itself, is a matter of tools. It would be equally permissible to approach…
Astronomy
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