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ON Friday, Feb. 1, Prof. A. S. Eddington delivered the fifteenth Thomas Hawksley lecture before the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on “Engineering Principles in the Machinery of the Stars.” In introducing a general account of his well-known theory of the internal constitution of the stars, Prof. Eddington remarked that although modern physics is tending to show that engineering principles are not fundamental in the constitution of the universe, yet Nature does contrive to produce engineering work on the grand scale, much of which is exemplified in the structure of the stars. He then proceeded to amplify this statement by regarding a star as a power station, and considering the questions of its equipment and fuel supply.
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Structure of the Stars. Nature 123, 226–227 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123226a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/123226a0