Side-Lights on Astronomy

Автор: Simon Newcomb
Издательство: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Страниц: 384
Размер: 12,9 МБ

IN preparing and issuing this collection of essays and addresses, the author has yielded to what he could not but regard as the too flattering judgment of the publishers. Having done this, it became incumbent to do what he could to justify their good opinion by revising the material and bringing it up to date. Interest rather than unity of thought has determined the selection.