Civic Astronomy: Albany's Dudley Observatory, 1852-2002 (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)

by George Wise (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $172.56

  As discoveries by the Dudley Observatory's astronomers, especially its second director Lewis Boss, made significant contributions to the modern vision of our Milky Way galaxy as a rotating spiral of more than a million stars, the advance of astronomy left that little observatory behind.