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AGNES M. CLERKE
Hon. Member of the Royal Astronomical Society; Author of "History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century" and "Problems in Astrophysics"
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FROM THE PREFACE
Fifteenyears have elapsed since the original publication of the present work; and fifteen years count as a long spell of time where sidereal research is in question. In preparing the Second Edition, accordingly, I have introduced extensive modifications. Considerable sections of the book have been recast, and all have been thoroughly revised. New chapters have been inserted, old ones have been in large part suppressed. Drastic measures of reform have, in short, been adopted, with results that certainly import progress and (it is hoped) constitute improvements. Most of the illustrations are entirely new; and I am under great obligations for the use of valuable photographs and drawings, among others, to Sir. David Gill, F.R.S., to Professor Hale and the University Press of Chicago, to the Rev. W. Sidgreaves, S.J., to Professors E. C. Pickering, Campbell, Barnard, and Frost, and to Dr. Max Wolf of Heidelberg.
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NOTE
"This is emphatically a "new century" book. It aims at stimulating progress along lines carefully marked out as immediately practicable. The same author's "History of Astronomy" is a survey of the past; "Problems in Astrophysics" looks to the future. What we already know is regarded in it as means to the end of augmenting knowledge. Astrophysics is a science still at the outset of a magnificent career. Its ways are beset with claimants for its attention. There is often much difficulty in choosing between them, yet rapidity of progress depends upon prudence in selection. Many hints for its guidance are accordingly offered in the present work, which deals, so far as possible, with answerable questions. It should, then, find its way into the hands of every astronomer who desires to keep up with the drift of thought, and to be informed of the prospects of work and discovery in the various departments of research connected with the physics of the heavenly bodies."
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Thisvolume contains a series of brief and attractive studies on current theories regarding the origin and history of the visible universe. The difficulties besetting cosmical doctrines of evolution are pointed out in them, and the expedients are described by which those difficulties have been met, though not wholly overcome. The widened possibilities connected with the new science of radiology, the unification of the physical forces that may ensue upon further discoveries concerning electrical action, the function in the world of the impalpable ether, the nature of gravity, are in turn discussed or adverted to; while the final chapter takes into consideration the crowning problem of life.
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