The Harvard College Observatory: The First Four Directorships

by Lyle Gifford Boyd and Bessie Zaban Jones

Since its founding in 1839, the Harvard College Observatory has pioneered in the development of modern astronomy. Its first directors early recognized the potential of spectroscopy in revealing the constitution of the stars, and of photography in determining the positions and motions of celestial objects; the library of photographic plates made under their direction provides an invaluable history of the stellar universe for the period. The Observatory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674418786
• ISBN13: 9780674418783
• Release Date: February 1971
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"