Popular Astronomy, Volume 48Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1940 |
Contents
JANUARY 1940 | 77 |
THE ROTATION OF THE GALAXY | 117 |
NATHANAEL CARPENTER AND THE PHILOSOPHIA LIBERA | 143 |
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