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SINCE the year 1922, when the first edition of the Astronomer Royal's “General Astronomy” was published, the progress of the science has been truly remarkable. Naturally this cannot be said of all that broad field where advance has been slowly and laboriously consolidated by centuries of patient observation. There is a very wide region where methods and ideas are static. They retain their importance, but descriptions of them once given do not call for constant revision. There is, on the other hand, a part of the science, chiefly in stellar astronomy, where the application of modern physical theory has changed the scene, and ideas are in a state of flux.
General Astronomy.
By Dr. H. Spencer Jones. Second edition. Pp. viii + 437 + 28 plates. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1934.) 12s. 6d. net.
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General Astronomy . Nature 135, 810 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135810a0
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