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 188
was undoubtedlythe greatest task one man had ever carried through single-handed ; with the simple, unegotistic certainty of genius headded that he would give second place to the fourteen yearswhich he himself had devoted to the mathematical theory ofthe motions of Jupiter and Saturn. Such men must… … PLATE XXVI. The 37-Ixch Mills Reflector, Santlago, Chile. Astronomical Discovery 115 haze obliterated all but the brighter stars!) and Eulers equa-tion, which gives a remarkable relation between the times, thedistances from the central body, and the length of the arctraversed in a parabolic orbit…
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