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 261
ispered to himself some precious phrase that stuck in hismind. H, he whispered, if only we could pick that lock. Heseemed to wake up at last out of his entrancement and the red Sunwas before his eyes. Into his mind came a strange echo of that ances-tral fancy, that fancy of a Stone Age, dead and… … PLATE XLI. The Great Nebula in Orion.Pliotograplicd by J. E. Keelcr, Crossley Reflector, Nov. 16, NEWS FROM THE STARS By Robert G. Aitken Like the Athenians in the days of St. Paul, we all delight totell or hear of some new thing. Whats the news? is astandard form of greeting and few of us can pass…
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