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PROBLEMS IN ASTROPHYSICS

PLATE I. Photograph of the η Argûs Nebula. Taken by Sir David Gill in March 1892. (Knowledge, vol. xvi. p. 70). [Frontispiece.
PROBLEMS IN ASTROPHYSICS
BY
AGNES M. CLERKE
AUTHOR OF
‘A HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,’ ‘THE SYSTEM OF THE STARS,’ AND OTHER WORKS
“In solidis et veris aspiramus ad ultima et summa.”
Novum Organum, ii. 51.
CONTAINING 81 ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK
1903
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED
BY PERMISSION
TO
Sir DAVID GILL, K.C.B.
WHOSE SUGGESTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT PROMPTED ITS COMPOSITION AND ANIMATED ITS PROGRESS
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