Galaxies
Subtitle: Structure and Evolution
Publisher: Crane Russak & Co; Taylor & Francis
Published: May 1979
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780844813561
First sentence: In the medieval world picture the stars were regarded as points of light attached to a sphere, whose surface was a long way outside the Solar System but whose volume was thought to be very much smaller than the space which we now know the stars to occupy.