The Realm of the Nebulae
London: Oxford University Press, 1936.
First British edition, first printing. [xiv], 210pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Near Fine with softened corners, light staining to tail, spine bumped at head. Offset from dust jacket, yang seal to front free endpaper and half title page; bookseller's ticket from Shanghai to rear paste down. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with darkened spine and front panel, light soiling, modest amount of wear to extremities, older tape repair to verso at head of front panel. Housed in a custom slipcase. Hubble spoke of his work and conclusions in the 1935 Silliman Lectures at Yale University; these were published in 1936 as The Realm of the Nebulae. Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity and Hubble's "Law," which proved that the universe is expanding, shaped 20th century physics and our understanding of gravitation, space, and time. The Hubble Space Telescope, an asteroid, a comet, a crater on the moon, and a planetarium are named after Hubble, who was never a Nobel laureate, as the prize did not include astrophysics during his lifetime.
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