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The Harlow-Shapley Symposium on Globular Cluster Systems in Galaxies. Proceedings of the 126th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., August 25-29, 1986.
Grindlay, Jonathan E.; Philip, A. G. Davies
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Paperback. Proceedings of the 126th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Cambridge, MA, August 25-29, 1986 Series: International Astronomical Union Symposia (Closed). Num Pages: 780 pages, 133 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PGM; PHD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1340.
In the centennial year, 1985-86, of Harlow Shapley's birth, the study of globular clusters was no less important to the development of astronomy than in 1915, when Shapley first noted their concentration on the sky. By 1917 Shapley had used the properties of the system of globular clusters to complete the Copernican revolution and locate the solar system, and its Earth-bound observers, far from the center of the Galaxy and the globular cluster distribution. Seven decades later, in the year of these proceedings, globular cluster research and the study of the system of globular clusters in our own and distant ... Read more
In the centennial year, 1985-86, of Harlow Shapley's birth, the study of globular clusters was no less important to the development of astronomy than in 1915, when Shapley first noted their concentration on the sky. By 1917 Shapley had used the properties of the system of globular clusters to complete the Copernican revolution and locate the solar system, and its Earth-bound observers, far from the center of the Galaxy and the globular cluster distribution. Seven decades later, in the year of these proceedings, globular cluster research and the study of the system of globular clusters in our own and distant ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
780
Condition
New
Series
International Astronomical Union Symposia (Closed)
Number of Pages
780
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789027726650
SKU
V9789027726650
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