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 226
s to the solar system, andshowed the people that comets were no longer to be feared,that they were merely members of the solar system, movingunder the attraction of the Sun, and that their motions andpositions could be computed in accordance with Newtons andKeplers Laws just the same as in the case… … PLATE XXXIV. Sir William Huggins. 1824-1910. Important Epochs in Astronomy 137 and hence the distance from the Sun to the Earth, by observa-tions of the transit of Venus. Bradley, the successor of Hahey, discovered aberration andnutation. All of the objects in the sky are displaced somewhat,due to…
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