Astronomical essays historical and descriptive
By: by J. Ellard Gore ... With 6 illustrations.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1907
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Astronomy.; Astronomy -- History.
Notes: "Of the essays ... the following have appeared in Knowledge: The brightness of starlight, Stellar brightness and density, Holes in the heavens, The stellar universe, A possible celestial catastrophe, and The new cosmogony; and the following in The Observatory: The secular variation of stars, The number of visible stars, and The satellite of Sirius.  The rest have not been hitherto published."--cf. Preface.