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WE have waited for the second part of this very remarkable volume completing the Harvard Photometry, rather than examine the separate portions piecemeal. There can be no doubt that its appearance is associated with an epoch in the general progress of astronomical science, coincident nearly with the other corresponding advances in connection with the spectroscope and sidereal photography. The three combined constitute a distinct feature in the more modern methods, by which we are gradually becoming better acquainted with the infinite remote. So soon as molecular physics shall have made, as is promised, a like advance, then the infinite minute also will be brought more distinctly within the human ken.
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The Harvard Photometry 1 . Nature 32, 368–369 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032368a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/032368a0