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THE author has written a series of volumes on various phases of evolution; the present book belongs to the series, and discusses the light that has been thrown on stellar and planetary evolution by the discoveries of the last half-century. As an illustration of the difficulty of keeping up-to-date in discussing the status of the spiral nebulæ, some of the views of leading astronomers in favour of the “island-universe” theory that are quoted in the book have already been modified by the discovery of their rapid rotation.
The Wonders of the Stars.
By Joseph McCabe. Pp. ix + 114 + 4 plates. (London: Watts and Co., 1923.) 3s. net.
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C., A. The Wonders of the Stars. Nature 112, 201 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112201d0
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