The Harvard College Observatory : : The First Four Directorships / / Lyle Gifford Boyd, Bessie Zaban Jones.
Since its founding in 1839, the Harvard College Observatory has pioneered in the development of modern astronomy. Its first directors early recognized the potential of spectroscopy in revealing the constitution of the stars, and of photography in determining the positions and motions of celestial ob...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1971 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
Language: | English |
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