The Pith of Astronomy

Автор: Samuel G. Bayne
Издательство: Harper & brothers Publishers
Страниц: 184
Год: 1898
Размер: 2,22 МБ

THE large modern telescope, celestial photography, and improved astronomical instruments have opened the field of astronomy to such an extent that the ideas, statements, and figures of a few years ago are no longer authentic. Happily for the credit of astronomers, the wonders of the skies have been underestimated, and those who thought that statements that had been previously made regarding celestial wonders were almost beyond credence will be pleased to find that they were not only true, but that in reality not more than half the truth had been told.