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Title: The Adolfo Stahl lectures in astronomy, delivered in San Francisco, California, in 1916-17 and 1917-18, under the auspices of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Astronomical Society of the Pacific Aitken, Robert Grant, 1864-1951
Subjects: Astronomy
Publisher: San Francisco Stanford University Press
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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them to illustrate the nature of the work uponwhich the astronomer is engaged. I have had another pur-pose also, and that is to take your thoughts away, for a shorttime, from the cares and anxieties of our every-day life. It iswith deliberate purpose, too, that I have included in my itemsseveral which relate to the stars now visible in our early eve-ning sky, for I hope that you may be led, from time to time, tolook up thoughtfully at these stars. If you will do so, I thinkyou will find that, as a recent English writer says, the starshave a balm for us if we will but be silent, for the huge andthoughtful night speaks a language simple, august, universal. It is one of the minor consolations of the war, continuesthis writer, who is personally doing his utmost to support hisgovernment in the prosecution of the war, that it has given usin London a chance of hearing that language. The lamps of ^ See also the notes by Curtis and by Shapley in the Pnbl. Asiron. Soc. Par.,29, 180, 213, 1917.
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PLATE XLVL The Great Nebula in Andromeda and the locations of ten Novae dis-covered at the Solar Observatory. Nova No. 2 is visible on thephotograph. News from the Stars 173 the streets are blotted out, and the lamps above are visible—thegreat procession of the stars is the most astonishing spectacleoffered to men. Emerson said that if we only saw it once in ahundred years we should spend years in preparing for thevision. It is hung out for us every night, and we barely giveit a glance. And yet it is well worth glancing at. It is the bestcorrective for this agitated little mad-house in which we dwelland quarrel and fight and die. It gives us a new scale ofmeasurement and a new order of ideas. Even the war seemsonly a local affair of some ill-governed asylum in the presenceof this ordered marcli of illimitable worlds. RECENT PROGRESS IN THE STUDY OFMOTIONS OF BODIES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM^ By Armin O. Leuschner Introductory Remarks During the past ten days astronomers all over the world

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