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MONSIEUR GUILLEMIN is favourably known among us by his beautiful book “The Heavens” and the present volume may be regarded as a considerable expansion of his chapters on the sun in that work, with additional matter, giving an account of the recent solar discoveries. The expansion has been very judiciously done; but the new matter introduced has been added, in too much haste and consequently the recent conquests of Science do not come out so satisfactorily as they might otherwise have done. In “The Heavens,” M. Guillemin did what Frenchmen very rarely do—he took the trouble to inform himself on what was done in England, America and Germany. In the present instance he has taken his information from French sources exclusively and the result is poor.
The Sun.
By Amédée Guillemin. Translated by T. L. Phipson, Ph. D. Pp. 296. 58 illustrations. (Bentley.)
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The Sun . Nature 1, 380 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001380a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/001380a0