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IN the course of half a dozen essays the author of this volume of the “Victorian Era Series” has attempted to give an account of a few of the more interesting problems of modern astronomy. While the book is admirably written throughout, the subject-matter is in some respects not sufficiently up to date. For example, in the essay on the “life of a star,” which is otherwise exceedingly interesting, there is practically no reference to the spectroscopic evidence bearing on the subject; and again, in that on the “analysis of starlight,” there is no account of the different kinds of stellar spectra and their probable relationship to each other, most of this chapter being concerned with motion in the line of sight.
Recent Advances in Astronomy.
By A. H. Fison Pp. vi + 237. (London: Blackie and Son, 1898.)
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Recent Advances in Astronomy. Nature 59, 367 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059367a0
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