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THIS pleasantly written and well-printed booklet gives in eighty pages a brief but wide survey of present-day astronomy. It can be recommended to English readers of the French language who desire acquaintance with modern views and problems in astronomy, rather than a knowledge of the detailed facts. The fifty-nine plates, each occupying a page, are reproductions, good on the whole, of photographs of observatories and telescopes, the sun and moon, the planets, comets, stellar spectra, the Milky Way, clusters, and nebulæ.
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Par André Danjon. (Bibliothèque générale illustrée, 2.) Pp. 80 + 59 planches. (Paris: F. Rieder et Cie, 1926.) 15 francs.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 118, 620 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118620e0
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