Abstract
PROF. MITCHELL'S book on eclipses of the sun is so well known that detailed notice of the new edition is not necessary, the more so because it differs from the third edition only by the addition of a new chapter dealing with the eclipses of 1932 and 1934. A few minor additions have been made, but there has been no general revision. It is odd to read, in a volume bearing the date 1935, a passage such as this: “The author is going to be rash enough to predict that the 1932 corona . . . will show the minimum type of corona”. There are a number of other passages which should have been revised. It would perhaps have been better if the results derived from the observations at the recent eclipses had been given as an appendix.
Eclipses of the Sun
By Prof. S. A. Mitchell. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xvii + 520 + 81 plates. (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1935.) 25s. net.
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Eclipses of the Sun. Nature 138, 823 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138823c0
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