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IN NATURE for May 18, I find a review by Prof. Newcomb of my book on the Sun, and I beg leave to give some explanations respecting it. It is a pity that Mr. Newcomb has received my book only so lately (about one year after the printing was finished). On this account the criticism which he makes respecting spectrum analysis and the defects of the work on that head is entirely admissible; but this is no fault of the author. Since the book was written sixteen months have elapsed, and during this time great progress has been made in this branch of science, and nobody knows it better than myself, since I find so many things to add to that chapter.
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SECCHI, P. The Sun. Nature 4, 82–83 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004082a0
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