Modern Astronomy

Abstract

THIS much-anticipated book is described as a revision of Young's “Manual of Astronomy,” although, as stated in the preface, “the scope of the new work is somewhat more extensive than that of the former ‘Manual,’ and intermediate between this and the ‘General Astronomy.’” Th classical works of Young have long been the best volumes of their kind, except for the fact that they have been out-of-date on the physical side, and no more appropriate task could have been undertaken by their illustrious authors successors at Princeton than that which they have now brought to fulfilment. So numerous and radical have been the advances of the last few decades that it has been found necessary practically to re-write the book, with an inevitable increase in length. The result, it may be said at once, is worthy of its prototype.

Astronomy. A Revision of young's Manual of Astronomy.

By Dr. Henry Norris Russell Dr. Raymond Smith Dugan Dr. John Quincy Stewart. Vol. 1: The Solar System. Pp. xi + 470 + xxi. Vol. 2: Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy. Pp. xii + 471–932 + xxx. (Boston, New York, Chicago and London: Ginn and Co., 1926–1927.) 2.48 dollars each vol.