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THE author has brought together in a small compass a list of the more prominent objects in the heavens for the use of possessors of small telescopes. The list is accompanied also by brief historical and introductory information applicable to each class of object treated. There are five chapters in all, and these are devoted to the following subjects:—Stars, double, multiple and binary stars, variable stars, star-clusters and nebulæ, and the stellar universe. In the first of these a brief account, among other topics, is given of the classifications of stellar spectra, but unfortunately the reader is not told that Vogel's classification is based on the assumption that all stars are decreasing in temperature, while a natural and more recent classification, dividing the stars into groups in which they are increasing or decreasing their temperature, is altogether omitted.
The Stellar Heavens.
By Ellard Gore. Pp. xxxii + 128. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1903.) Price 2s. net.
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The Stellar Heavens . Nature 68, 101 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068101a0
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