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The Discovery of Our Galaxy (History of Science and Technology Reprint Series) [Paperback]

Charles Allen Whitney (Author)

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Paperback: 334 pages
Publisher: Iowa State Pr (August 30, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813800889
ISBN-13: 978-0813800882
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,240,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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When I try to imagine the sky of the Ancients, I see a full moon rising at sunset, turning from orange to white and bathing the forest in silver light. Read the first page

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small nebulae, flattened system, nebulous patches, nebulous stars, true brightness, spiral nebulae, extragalactic nebulae, globular clusters, external galaxies, nebulous matter, apparent brightness

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Milky Way, John Herschel, Mount Wilson, Lick Observatory, William Herschel, University of Chicago, Yerkes Observatory, Magellanic Clouds, Hale Observatories, University of California, Lord Rosse, Original Theory, Royal Society, Small Magellanic Cloud, Great Nebula, Isaac Newton, New York, Southern Hemisphere, Charles Darwin, Cosmographic Mystery, Tycho Brahe, Walter Baade, Astronomy of the Twentieth Century, Edwin Hubble, Northern Lights

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The Milky Way Galaxy and Statistical Cosmology, 1890-1924 by Erich Robert Paul on page 190, and page 199
Neutrinos and Explosive Events in the Universe: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, held in Erice, Italy, 2-13 July 2004 (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 209) by Maurice M. Shapiro on page 45
The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy by Michael Hoskin in Back Matter
Women in Mathematics by Lynn M. Osen in Back Matter
Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond by Gerald Holton on page 498

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