Abstract
THE gifted author of this work became justly famous by the publication of her now classical “History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century.” The mass of accurate information there brought together, and the delightful way in which it was related, won well-earned praise on every hand. Her success in that effort has now encouraged her to a more ambitious one. In addition to the simple relation of facts, she ventures to give her opinions on the various inferences which have been drawn from them by those who have spent many years in elaborate investigations. Still, “the statement of facts has been kept primarily in view, but the more important efforts to interpret them have been noticed, and the difficulties attending rival theories impartially pointed out.”
The System of the Stars.
By Agnes M. Clerke. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890.)
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F. The System of the Stars. Nature 43, 169–172 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/043169a0
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