Abstract
WE must confess that the examination of this book has proved a little disappointing. This disappointment was probably inevitable from the circumstances in which the book has been produced, and the object which it is in tended to serve. It appears that in the Cornell University the students of civil engineering devote five hours a week during one term to the study of astronomy. In this short space of time it is found impossible to master the contents of such a book as Chauvenet or other recognised standard work, and to meet this difficulty this book is put forward, not on the ground that it contains as much information as a student should acquire, but as much as he can acquire in the short time at his disposal. The sacrifice of thoroughness and completeness to the necessities of a particular University course can neither meet with general approval nor result in the production of a satisfactory treatise.
A Text-book of Geodetic Astronomy.
By John F. Hayford (New York: John Wiley and Sons. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1898.)
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A Text-book of Geodetic Astronomy. Nature 58, 543 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058543b0
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