The Harvard College Observatory: The First Four Directorships

by Donald H. Menzel, Bessie Zaban Jones, Lyle Gifford Boyd

Since its founding in 1839, the Harvard College Observatory has pioneered in the development of modern astronomy. Its first directors early recognized the potential of spectroscopy in revealing the constitution of the stars, and of photography in determining the positions and motions of celestial objects; the library of photographic plates made under their direction provides an invaluable history of the stellar universe for the period. The Observatory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674374606
• ISBN13: 9780674374607
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"