The Destinies of the Stars

Chapter 13: Transcriber’s Notes

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The author traces human star-worship and calendrical uses of celestial observation, then surveys the Milky Way’s structure and nebulae, stellar classification, and theories of stellar motion and evolution. He examines the climatic importance of water vapor and atmospheric physics, considers atmospheres and spectra of planets and moons, and discusses solar-system formation from nebular material and the long-term fates of stars and planets. Essays combine historical, observational, and theoretical perspectives to connect cultural astronomy, planetary environments, and cosmological processes, offering interpretations of how stellar and planetary evolution shape climates and the possibilities for life.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

The spelling and accent marks of non-English words have not been changed.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

Illustrations have been moved, when necessary, to fall between paragraphs and outside of quoted text. In some cases, this places them on different pages than the ones given in the Table of Illustrations. In versions of this eBook that support “links”, the page numbers in that table link to the correct illustrations.

These are larger, more detailed versions of maps 17 and 17a:

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(Fig. 17a, left side, larger)

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