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| Title | Diamonds in the Sky |
| Author | Crommelin, Dr A. C. D. |
| Asset Number | 00540 |
| Publisher | Collins |
| ISBN | |
| Published Date | 1943 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Printing | 2 |
| Description | Blue cloth hardcover with protected unclipped dust jacket.
Crommelin, A. C. de la (Andrew Claude) 1865-1939
As well as numerous contributions to such publications as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Crommelin prepared astronomical almanacs for observations of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon. He also contributed observations of comets and minor planets to the Journal of the British Astronomical Association for over 40 years, and was the author of Comet Catalogue (1925), an updating of an 1894 work by the famous German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle (the discoverer of the planet Neptune; his work, Verzeichniss Der Elemente Der Bisher Berechneten Cometenbahnen Nebst Anmerkungen Und Literatur-Nachweisen, is usually known in English simply under the easier title "Galle's Cometenbahn"). One modern astronomer said of this work: "Crommelin's sequel to Galle's Cometenbahnen certainly advanced cometry science in his day". He also published, assisted by Mary Proctor Comets (1937) and was the author of two other books The Star World (1914), The Story of the Stars (1930) and Diamonds in the Sky (1940). |
| Category | Space Science |
| Epoch | Vintage |
| Date Acquired | 05/08/2022 |
| Condition | (2) Very Good |
