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 286
as a recent English writer says, the starshave a balm for us if we will but be silent, for the huge andthoughtful night speaks a language simple, august, universal. It is one of the minor consolations of the war, continuesthis writer, who is personally doing his utmost to support hisgovernment in… … PLATE XLVL The Great Nebula in Andromeda and the locations of ten Novae dis-covered at the Solar Observatory. Nova No. 2 is visible on thephotograph. News from the Stars 173 the streets are blotted out, and the lamps above are visible—thegreat procession of the stars is the most astonishing…
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