Explorer of the Universe: a biography of George Ellery Hale.

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8vo. 480 pp. Illus., index. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket rubbed. Very good. First edition. "Hale was the pioneering American astronomer who founded and directed the great observatories at Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar and founded The Astrophysical Journal." [NYT]. "As an undergraduate at M.I.T., [Hale] first won international fame with his invention of the spectroheliography, the instrument for photographing the sun in various spectral lights, which opened up vast new vistas in the understanding of the sun and the universe." [jacket]. Mary Helen Wright Greuter (1914-1997) was an astronomer and author of Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell. This biography of Hale, written at the request of the National Academy of Sciences, is her best known work. See: Saxon, Wolfgang (November 2, 1997). "Helen Wright Greuter, 82, Astronomer and Author". New York Times. 20 January 2013. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers S13789

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