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 324
ires our interest now, so much as a certain parallelismwith the heavens above. Alany things have been learned aboutthe stars, but to understand them, to comprehend and makethem a really vital part of our knowledge of the world aboutus, they must be pictured in terms of every-day… … PLATE XLVII. Lights in the Valley Below Mount Wilson. The Brightness of the Stars 209 not unlike a glorious constellation; and the analogies that maybe traced between them and the distant stars smooth awaymany difficulties which otherwise would be encountered. 1. The Fixed Stars—Early Conceptions…
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