Popular Astronomy, Volume 51Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1943 |
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... Copernicus four hundred years earlier . The release issued from the Kosciuszko Foundation , under whose auspices and those of the Copernican Quadricentennial National Com- mittee these exercises were held , gives the details of the ...
... Copernicus four hundred years earlier . The release issued from the Kosciuszko Foundation , under whose auspices and those of the Copernican Quadricentennial National Com- mittee these exercises were held , gives the details of the ...
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... Copernican Quadricentennial National Committee , of which Dr. Harlow Shapley , Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory , is Chairman . Dr. MacCracken welcomed the large and distinguished audience ...
... Copernican Quadricentennial National Committee , of which Dr. Harlow Shapley , Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory , is Chairman . Dr. MacCracken welcomed the large and distinguished audience ...
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... Copernicus , sung by the Schola Cantorum of New York , with Hugh Ross conducting , and arranged especially for the Copernican Quadricentennial by Karol Rathaus , Professor of Music at Queens College ; Copernican Citations , with names ...
... Copernicus , sung by the Schola Cantorum of New York , with Hugh Ross conducting , and arranged especially for the Copernican Quadricentennial by Karol Rathaus , Professor of Music at Queens College ; Copernican Citations , with names ...
Contents
Frontispiece Plate 1 The Moon | 9 |
The Moon Wm W Payne | 16 |
Concerted Observation of the Aurora M A Veeder | 22 |
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