Abstract
THE appearance of a popular work on astronomy, particularly one by so experienced a worker as Dr. Abbot, is an event of much interest to those who believe that science has a message for the general public, for there is no science which bears more closely than does astronomy on the intellectual problems that face all educated men. It is probably true also that no science can claim so copious a literature of the popular kind, but the rapidity and revolutionary character of recent advances has left the great bulk of astronomical treatises hopelessly behind the times. A book of the type of Dr. Abbot's is therefore anything but superfluous, and the reader will find in it information which even the publications of a year ago were too early to supply.
The Earth and the Stars.
By Dr. C. G. Abbot. Pp. xi + 264 + 33 plates. (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1925.) 15s. net.
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D., H. The Earth and the Stars . Nature 117, 819–820 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117819a0
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