PROBLEMS IN ASTROPHYSICS
Demy 8vo. 560 pages. Cloth.
Containing 50 Illustrations in the Text and 31 Plates
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NOTE
"This is emphatically a "new century" book. It aims at stimulating progress along lines carefully marked out as immediately practicable. The same author's "History of Astronomy" is a survey of the past; "Problems in Astrophysics" looks to the future. What we already know is regarded in it as means to the end of augmenting knowledge. Astrophysics is a science still at the outset of a magnificent career. Its ways are beset with claimants for its attention. There is often much difficulty in choosing between them, yet rapidity of progress depends upon prudence in selection. Many hints for its guidance are accordingly offered in the present work, which deals, so far as possible, with answerable questions. It should, then, find its way into the hands of every astronomer who desires to keep up with the drift of thought, and to be informed of the prospects of work and discovery in the various departments of research connected with the physics of the heavenly bodies."
SOME PRESS OPINIONS
"The book shows every sign of profound and careful study, and the sense of scientific imagination, which is one of the greatest means of independent discovery."—St. James's Gazette.
"The book is written with all the charm that has characterised the authoress's previous volumes, and contains a wealth of information and suggestion for work yet to be accomplished which will appeal to all who are interested in the problems of the universe."—Daily Telegraph.
"We feel that Miss Clerke has earned, and will surely receive, the admiration and gratitude of astronomers for this new proof of her devotion to their science."—The Times.