Text-book on spherical astronomy

W. M. Smart

earliest edition we have, 1971 University Press, 1971 430 pages

This well-established textbook gives a general but comprehensive introduction to positional astronomy. Originally based on the author's lecture courses at Cambridge University, it is intended primarily for undergraduates, but, due to its comprehensive nature, it is a very useful reference text for research workers in many branches of astronomy and space physics. The author considers the night sky as the celestial sph...

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Textbook on Spherical Astronomy paperback · 1977 · Cambridge University Press · 431 pages
Text-book on spherical astronomy. edition · 1971 · Cambridge University Press · 442 pages
Text-book on spherical astronomy edition · 1971 · University Press · 430 pages

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