Abstract
“THE history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.” So the author tells us in his first chapter, and sets to work to record, in simple language and with much charm, the story of the recent enlargement of the horizon of the visible universe. This is so obviously a task for giant telescopes, that we naturally expect to find that the great bulk of the work has been done at Mount Wilson. Indeed the author himself has contributed the lion's share, but he has gathered round him a group of very able collaborators, and their labours and thoughts have been so interwoven that “the individual often speaks for the group”.
The Realm of the Nebulae
By Edwin Hubble. (Yale University: Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures.) Pp. xiii + 210 + 15 plates. (London: Oxford University Press, 1936.) 12s. 6d. net.
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J., J. The Realm of the Nebulae. Nature 138, 859–860 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138859a0
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