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Hardcover The Harvard College Observatory: The First Four Directorships Book

ISBN: 0674418786

ISBN13: 9780674418783

The Harvard College Observatory: The First Four Directorships

Since its founding in 1839, the Harvard College Observatory has pioneered in the development of modern astronomy. Its first directors early recognized the potential of spectroscopy in revealing the constitution of the stars, and of photography in determining the positions and motions of celestial objects; the library of photographic plates made under their direction provides an invaluable history of the stellar universe for the period. The Observatory...

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