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The Harlow-Shapley Symposium on Globular Cluster Systems in Galaxies - Proceedings of the 126th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., August 25-29, 1986 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
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The Harlow-Shapley Symposium on Globular Cluster Systems in Galaxies - Proceedings of the 126th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., August 25-29, 1986 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
Series: International Astronomical Union Symposia, 126
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In the centennial year, 1985-86, of Harlow Shapley's birth, the
study of globular clusters was no less important to the development
of astronomy than in 1915, when Shapley first noted their
concentration on the sky. By 1917 Shapley had used the properties
of the system of globular clusters to complete the Copernican
revolution and locate the solar system, and its Earth-bound
observers, far from the center of the Galaxy and the globular
cluster distribution. Seven decades later, in the year of these
proceedings, globular cluster research and the study of the system
of globular clusters in our own and distant galaxies is undergoing
a renaissance of activity. The introduction of new observational
tools, particularly CCD imagers and digital spectrographs, as well
as powerful theoretical methods have transformed the study of
globular clusters into one of the main line areas of modern
astrophysics. Thus it seemed particularly appropriate to one of us,
when considering how the Harvard College Observatory might mark the
Shapley centennial, to propose and plan for an IAU Symposium on
Globular Cluster Systems in Galaxies. Planning for the Shapley
Symposium, as it came to be called, was even more drawn out than
the preparation of this volume. The Symposium was originally
proposed to the IAU Secretariat in time for it to be held in
August, 1985, so that it might occur in the centennial (calendar)
year.
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