Sun, Moon and Stars

Abstract

THE authors of this book are well equipped for producing a work that will appeal to young people-and one might add to older people, too, who have little or no scientific background. Prof. Skilling has taught astronomy for many years and Dr. Richardson, at present associated with the Mount Wilson Observatory, has devoted a number of years to research. Five parts deal in turn with “The Moon”, “The Sun”, “The Sun's Family of Planets”, “The Stars”, and “Astronomers and Observatories”, and the subjects are treated in a manner which requires practically no mathematics, or where such is introduced, it is of the most elementary character. The descriptions are excellent for the readers for whom the book is intended, and are illustrated by ninety-nine diagrams and photographs. Sun, Moon and Stars Astronomy for Beginners. By Prof. William T. Skilling and Robert S. Richardson. (Whittlesey House Publication.) Pp. viii + 274. (New York and London : McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1946.) 12s. 6d.