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THOSE who are familiar with the Spanish language and have made up their minds to go abroad and see, the approaching total eclipse of the sun will find in this book a great amount of useful information relating to this interesting event. The work is issued from the Madrid Astronomical Observatory, the director, Fran-cisco, Iniguez, having contributed a brief preface, and contains full particulars concerning-the elements of this eclipse; in fact, it might be considered a treatise on the subject, so complete is the information. In addition to a great many data which will be of special use to astronomers, there will be found a very full list of towns, in alphabetical order, at which totality occurs, with the times of the different phases of the eclipse. More generally useful perhaps will be found the maps at the end of the volume. These include a map of the world showing the position of the track from the commencement to the end of totality over the earth's surface. A second illustrates on a larger scale the Spanish portion of the track, with special lines showing the times of occurrence and duration of totality. The third, on a much larger scale (i: 1,000,000), indicates that part of Spain alone over which the shadow sweeps, and is very complete as regards names of places, railways, &c. Lastly, two star charts are added, one showing the position of the eclipsed sun among the stars, and the second a key map to this chart giving the designations of the stars and planets in this region.
Memoria sobre el Eclipse Total de Sol del día 30 de Agosto de 1905.
By D. Antonio Tarazona. Pp. 125. (Madrid: Bailly-Bailliere E. Hijos, 1904.)
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Memoria sobre el Eclipse Total de Sol del día 30 de Agosto de 1905. Nature 72, 77 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072077b0
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