|
What, nobody wants it?
These are the contents:
Primitive & Modern Ideas contrasted
Drawing the Solar System to scale
Finding the scale of the Solar System
The distances of the stars
Moving clusters and the Doppler principle
Binary stars
Indirect methods of measuring Stellar distances
Summing up the Galactic system
The 'White' nebula
Exploring the depths of space
Large reflecting telescopes
Is the universe finite or infinite?
Why are the nebula receeding - if they are?
Relativity
Finite but Boundless space
Summing up
and there are some nice old Black & White pics too.
Don't be confused by some of the contents titles, the author refers to Galaxies as 'nebulas' as they were called back then.
|