AN INFORMATIVE 1969 COLLECTION OF ARTICLES
ON THE SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
OF THE GALAXIES AND COSMOLOGY FROM Sky and Telescope
BEYOND THE MILKY WAY
Edited by Thornton Page and Lou Williams Page
Contributors include Otto Struve, George Abell, Viktor Hess, Paul Hodge,
Beverly Lynds; George Mumgord; Louis Green, etc. etc.
An ex libris 1969 edition with original dustjacket; More than 100 illustrations.
Description: Thornton Page and Lou Williams Page, editors. BEYOND THE MILKY WAY: Galaxies, Quasars, and the New Cosmology (The Macmillan Sky and Telescope Library of Astronomy, Volume 8). New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969, 6 x 9.25 in., 336 pp. more than 100 illustrations, photographs, drawings, and charts.
Condition: Hardbound in maroon cloth with gilt title on spine and gilt design of telescope on front cover. Ex libris with the usual stamps, card pockets, and plates Pictorial dustjacket protected by plastic cover with some cuts to dustjacket and loss of paper on spine (see photos). Otherwise clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Overall VG.
Information: . We are pleased to offer this informative collection of articles about the what has been learned about galaxies and the overall structure and evolution of the universe from the standpoint of the science of the mid 1960's, with many historically interesting articles as well. Taken from a selection of articles that originally appeared in Sky and Telescope magazine. Topic headings include: The Introduction; Distances beyond the Milky Way; Structure and Content of Galaxies; Evolution; Peculiar Galaxies; Quasars; Masses, Luminosities, and Models; Cosmology;Appendices. Notes on Contributors. Articles include: Observational Aspects of Comology; Relativistic Astrophysics; Mysterious Messengers from Beyond the Solar System (Cosmic Rays); Continual Creation; The Problem of 3C-287; Galactic X-Ray Astronomy; Spectra of Quasars; Structure of 3C-273; Brightness Variations of Quasars; Fragments of Galaxies; The Sculptor and Fornax Dwarf Galaxies; More about the Explosion in Messier 82; Nature of the Ring around M81; One Hungred Fifty-Two Supernovae; Identification of Cassiopeia A? A Remarkable Chain of Galaxies; Motions of Galaxy M77; Inclinations of Spectrum Lines in Spirals; Interstellar Gas; Composite Photographs of the Whirlpool Nebula;The Galaxy's Spiral Shape; The Clouds of Magellan; Cepheids in the Andromeda Galaxy; Radio Energy from M31; Some Thoughts on Olber's Paradox; Etc. A nice addition to any collection of old astrophysics, meteors, asteroids, comets, Mars, planets, interplanetary matter, history of science, etc. VISIT MY EBAY STORE FOR OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST(Click This Link) Shipping: Free media rate shipping in US. Higher international postage as appropriate. (See Shipping and Payments tab on this listing page for further details.). |