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The Stability of the Sun

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems—Ptolemaic and Copernican

By Galileo Galilei. Translated by Stillman Drake; foreword by Albert Einstein. Pp. xxvii + 496. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; London: Cambridge University Press, 1953.) 75s. net.

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ANDRADE, E. The Stability of the Sun. Nature 174, 420–421 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174420b0

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