Abstract
IN this delightful little book, the Director of the Paris Observatory offers to the general reader a broad canvas on which are depicted the outlines of the recent important achievements of astronomy. As might be expected from the author's professional eminence, the book is up to date. A too brief account of the work of Lemaitre and Eddington on the expansion of the universe is relegated to an appendix; this section might, with advantage, have been given somewhat greater prominence. A large number of well-reproduced photographs of celestial objects enhance the value of the book to the general reader.
Dix leçons d'astronomie.
Ernest
Esclangon
Par. Pp. iv + 110 + 21 plates. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1933.) 25 francs.
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Dix leçons d'astronomie. Nature 132, 951 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132951d0
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