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Science
May 30, 1912 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Great Star Map," by H.H. Turner. Just a quarter century ago, nearly sixty astronomers were assembled in Paris to take photograph of great comet of that year. Of all the contributing astronomers, none could have given a better popular account of this vast work than Turner has given in this little volume, which makes even the technicalities of such research acceptable to the lay reader. Each observatory has taken from a thousand to fifteen hundred plates, each containing stars varying in number from less than a hundred in sparse areas to 5,000 in the rich regions of the Milky Way.

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GREAT Star Map, The (Book); COMETS -- Photographic measurements; TURNER, H. H.; ASTRONOMERS; PARIS (France); FRANCE
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