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Title: Stars and atoms

Author: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

Release date: April 8, 2024 [eBook #73362]

Language: English

Original publication: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927

Credits: Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.)

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Stars and Atoms

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Fig. 1. THE SUN. Hydrogen photograph

STARS AND ATOMS

BY

A. S. EDDINGTON

M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Plumian Professor of Astronomy
in the University of Cambridge

NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1927