Atoms, stars and nebuleæ: by Leo Goldberg and Lawrence H. Aller. (The Harvard Books on Astronomy.) 323 pages, 150 illustrations. Philadelphia, The Blakiston Company, 1943. Price $2.50

✍ Scribed by Roy K. Marshall

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1943
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 60 KB
• Volume: 236
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(43)91212-8

✦ Synopsis

The fifth of the Harvard Books on Astronomy has now appeared, and will soon find its place on the shelf of most-used books of astronomers and physicists. For while the book is intended for the serious non-professional reader, it has so summarized the present statusof astronomical spectroscopy that astrophysicists will find it constantly useful.

The narrative style is maintained in excellent fashion through the whole work, and as in some of the other books of the series the photographs of contemporary contributors to advances in the field add a worthwhile touch. Tables summarizing the data on star temperatures, masses, densities and other characteristics are scattered liberally, and every other page contains an illuminating photograph of a spectrum, a graph, or a diagram.

Supplemented with readings in the current literature, this book fills the need for a modern introductory textbook in astrophysics, yet it can be read with pleasure by those who are merely inquisitive about the methods and findings of modern astronomical spectroscopy.

[' ?. OY K. MARSHALL.