Author: Spencer-Jones, Sir Harold:
Title: A Picture Of The Universe.
Description: London, Raven Books, 1947. 1st Ed., H/B slim vol. white bds, good, in unclipped VG d/w, front pastedown creased, contents fine and bright. Spencer-Jones was 'His Majesty's Astronomer Royal' and a world-famous scientist. In this volume he explains, in simple language, the influences which fix the stars in their courses and the methods by which these facts were discovered and recorded.

Keywords: astronomy, stars, physics, Greenwich, observatory, courses, astronomer, science, earth, rotation, time.