Abstract
THIS volume opens with a short account of the life and work of Camille Flammarion (1842-1925), the founder of the Annuaire, and also contains a preface written by him. This 81st edition has been produced under many difficulties, among which are the restrictions on publications and the partial destruction of the printing establishment by bombardment, and the editor is to be congratulated on his perseverance in surmounting these obstacles. A short description of calendars of different races is followed by “Les Calendriers” for 1945, in which the festivals for various dates are given in three columns under the headings of Christian, Jewish and Mahom-medan. G. Flammarion supplies a scheme of a perpetual calendar for every year in accordance with certain suggestions made in comparatively recent times regarding a reformed calendar. Tno coordinates of the sun and moon in right ascension and declination to the nearest minute of time and minute of arc respectively are supplied, together with the times of rising and setting at Paris, the sidereal time, and times of passage of the meridian of Paris. The usual planetary details are included and proper motions of stars, stellar spectra, double stars, variables, etc., are dealt with. Fourteen pages are devoted to problems connected with the physics of the earth, terrestrial magnetism, solar activity, magnetic storms, and also with climatology, including barometric pressure, temperature and rainfall. An index adds very much to the value of this publication.
Annuaire astronomique et météorologique Camille Flammarion pour 1945
(81e année.) Pp. 382. (Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1945.) 80 francs.
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D., M. Annuaire astronomique et météorologique Camille Flammarion pour 1945. Nature 157, 145 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157145c0
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