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The General History of Astronomy: Volume 4, Astrophysics and Twentieth-Century Astronomy to 1950: Part A (Paperback)
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The General History of Astronomy: Volume 4, Astrophysics and Twentieth-Century Astronomy to 1950: Part A (Paperback)
Series: General History of Astronomy
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Volume 4 of The General History of Astronomy, originally published
in 1984, concerns the birth of modern astrophysics in the
nineteenth century, the growth of astronomical institutions to
around 1920, and the development of instrumentation. The volume
commences in the 1850s, with the first astronomical applications of
photography and spectral analysis. It closes in the 1950s, before
the explosive growth made possible by new electronic devices and
computers. In Part A, there are eleven chapters, written by an
international panel of eighteen authors, on subjects such as
observatories, large telescopes, astronomy in the southern
hemisphere, and early radio astronomy. Intended for general
readership, this book formed part of an in-depth synthesis of the
development of astronomy from the earliest times.
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