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Measuring the Stars

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Principles of Astrometry

With Special Emphasis on Long-Focus Photographic Astrometry. By Peter van de Kamp. Edited by R. A. Rosenbaum and G. Philip Johnson. (A Series of Books in Mathematics.) Pp. vii + 227. (London: W. H. Freeman and Company, Ltd., 1967.) 52s.

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