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THE FUTURE OF ASTRONOMY
BY PROFESSOR EDWARD C. PICKERING
Reprinted from the POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, August, 1909.


THE FUTURE OF ASTRONOMY[1]
BY PROFESSOR EDWARD C. PICKERING
HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY

It is claimed by astronomers that their science is not only the oldest,
but that it is the most highly developed of the sciences. Indeed it
should be so, since no other science has ever received such support from
royalty, from the state and from the private individual. However this
may be, there is no doubt that in recent years astronomers have had
granted to them greater opportunities for carrying on large pieces of
work than have been entrusted to men in any other department of pure
science. One might expect that the practical results of a science like
physics would appeal to the man who has made a vast fortune through some
of its applications.
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