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 222
tides. Anotherfield of investigation was thus opened up which was quite asvast as that started by Galileo. In addition to founding gravitational astronomy Newtonmay also be credited with the founding of modern astronomyor astrophysics when he discovered the composite character ofwhite light, the… … PLATE XXXIII. Sir William Herschel, 1738-1822. Important Epochs in Astronomy 135 spread out into a band of color which we call the spectrum.Although spectrum analysis did not begin to develop until themiddle of the 19th century, its foundation was laid by Newton. With this discovery of the…
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