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IT may be remembered that Dr. Charlier expressed doubt as to thecorrectness of the enormous distances for globular clusters announced by Dr. Harlow Shapley. Mr. Knut Lundmark, of Upsala Observa-Story, undertook a re-examination of the question, taking different lines of evidence from those used by Dr. Shapley. His work is published in Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, Band 60, No. 8. His data are avowedly of a much less precise character than those used by Dr. Shapley, but they lead to results of the same order of magnitude:
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The Parallaxes of Globular Clusters and Spiral Nebulæ. Nature 105, 215 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105215a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105215a0