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Henry Norris Russell
by David H. DeVorkin
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... relayed the news to Kapteyn, finding the Dutchman none too happy with the outcome .46 What is now called the "spectroscopic parallax" technique became a valuable new tool for estimating the absolute magnitudes and hence the distances of stars, to depths in space ... "
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The Firefly Encyclopedia of Astronomy
by Margaret Penston
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History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia (Garland Encyclopedias in the History of Science)
by John Lankford
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The Legacy of J.C. Kapteyn: Studies on Kapteyn and the Development of Modern Astronomy (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)
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