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Classic Text on Galaxies,
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This review is from: Hubble Atlas of Galaxies (Hardcover)
In the early part of this century Edwin Hubble and Alan Sandage did groundbreaking work in the study of galaxies. This volume, published by Sandage after Hubble's untimely death in 1961, is the classic text which defines Hubble's classification scheme for galaxies.This book marks the birth of galactic morphology or the classification of galaxies by their visual shape. More current works are critical of the Hubble classification scheme because it is based on one dimension: the physical shape. There are newer classification schemes based on factors like star formation, chemical composition and spectrographic features but the Hubble system remains the most widely used and recognized. According to the Smithsonian/NASA Astronomy Abstract Service, the Hubble Atlas of Galaxies is cited by 1060 scientific papers in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. |
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The Hubble atlas of galaxies ([Carnegie Institution of Washington] Publication 618) by Allan Sandage (Hardcover - 1961)
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