星雲世界

《星雲世界》(英語:The Realm of the Nebulae)是愛德文·哈勃創作的一本天文學普及著作,由其在耶魯大學西利曼紀念講座英語Silliman Memorial Lectures上的講稿改寫而來,1936年出版。[1]

星雲世界
作者愛德文·哈勃
類型書面作品[*]
語言英語
發行資訊
出版時間1936年 編輯維基數據

參考文獻

  1. ^ Tom Bezzi. Hubble Time. iUniverse. 2000: 93. ISBN 9780595142477. John terribly depressed, and asked Edwin about his belief. Edwin said, "The whole thing is so much bigger than I am, and I can't understand it, so I just trust myself to it, and forget about it." It was not his nature to speculate. Theories, in his opinion, were an appropriate cocktail conversation. He was essentially an observer, and as he said in The Realm of the Nebulae: "Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation." Edwin never exhausted those empirical resources. "I am an observer, not a theoretical man," he attested, and a lightly spoken word in a lecture or in a letter showed that observation was his choice. 

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