A Century's Progress in Astronomy

Chapter 17: Transcriber’s Notes

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An overview traces a century of astronomical advance, profiling pioneers, observational breakthroughs, and theoretical developments across the Sun, Moon, planets, comets, meteors, stars, nebulae, and cosmic structure. It recounts foundational discoveries and methods—telescopic surveys, spectroscopy, photographic work, parallax and proper-motion studies—and synthesizes debates about solar and stellar physics, planetary atmospheres, the distribution of stars, and the origin and evolution of celestial systems. Individual chapters examine major figures and topics, including planetary investigation, cometary and meteoric research, stellar spectra and variable stars, nebular studies, and cosmological hypotheses, concluding with considerations of stellar evolution and the large-scale organization of the universe.

CORRIGENDA.

P. 30, l. 5, for “objects” read “orbits.”
P. 36, l. 13, for “unable” read “able.”
P. 61, l. 17, for “8″.371” read “8″.571.”
P. 63, l. 21, for “bases” read “gases.”
P. 100, l. 16, for “Schwussmann” read “Schwassmann.”
P. 167, l. 28, for “Strumpe” read “Stumpe.”
P. 184, l. 11, for “star-variables” read “variable stars.”
P. 199, l. 23, for “2102” read “1202.”

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Transcriber’s Notes

Silently corrected a few typos, and incorporated the corrigenda into the text.
Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.