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 208
h ita host of new problems, and has opened up new fields of vastextent. We have seen our concepts of the size of the stellaruniverse steadily increase. Where once we doubtingly dis-cussed distances of a few thousand light-years, we now con-fidently postulate distances of hundreds of thousands… … PLATE XXX. The Mills Spectrograph Attached to the 36-Inch Refractor. IMPORTANT EPOCHS IN THE DEVELOPMENTOF ASTRONOMY By R. T. Crawford When one stands in awe and admiration before theWoolworth building in New York, the Campanile of Venice,or that of the University of California at Berkeley,…
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