Astrophysics.- Rowland (Henry A.) "Preliminary Table of Solar Spectrum Wave-Lengths", 5 parts in The Astrophysical Journal, vol.1, pp.29-31, 131-145, 222-231, 295-304, 377-392, Chicago, 1895; and vol.

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Astrophysics.- Rowland (Henry A.) "Preliminary Table of Solar Spectrum Wave-Lengths", 5 parts in The Astrophysical Journal, vol.1, pp.29-31, 131-145, 222-231, 295-304, 377-392, ex-library copy with ink-stamps, library half calf, spine browned with paper label, splitting to upper joint, rubbed, Chicago, 1895; and vol.2-10 of the same periodical, 8vo (10) *** The first 10 volumes of The Astrophysical Journal. Rowland's monumental series is regarded as the "spectroscopic Bible" of the late 19th-century. Rowland measured thousands of lines in the solar spectrum with unprecedented precision. Other important contributions appear in these volumes, including James Edward Keeler's "A Spectroscopic Proof of the Meteoric Constitution of Saturn's Rings"; George Ellery Hale's "The Solar Spectro-Heliograph"; Carl Runge and Friedrich Paschen's "Oxygen in the Sun".

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