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IN this sequel to a former work, the reader is taken by easy stages into the domain of spectroscopic astronomy and the evolution of worlds. Though following some astronomers who ought to know better, the authoress takes the unphilosophical view that the whole process of stellar evolution is one of cooling; and this is the more difficult to understand, as she is evidently not unfamiliar with the fact that a condensing body may actually be getting hotter (p. 307). While strongly advocating the value of hypotheses as aids to investigation, she is inconsistent enough to make contemptuous reference to the “half-fledged” theories of “scientists of a lower order” (p. 240); her qualifications for making such distinctions are not very clear to us, but her opinions seem to depend to some extent on personal bias, since special prominence is given to the views and work of one observer.
Radiant Suns.
By Agnes Giberne. (London: Seeley and Co., 1895.)
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Radiant Suns. Nature 51, 174 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051174a0
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