Publications of the David Dunlap Observatory-University of Toronto, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

David Dunlap Observatory

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0266614779 ISBN 13: 9780266614777

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Publications of the David Dunlap Observatory-University of Toronto<br/><br/>HE David Dunlap Observatory, the gift of Mrs. Jessie Donalda Dunlap to the University of Toronto as a memorial to her husband, was formally opened on May 31, The progress of astronomy as a department of the University during the past twenty-five years has been due to the continued efforts of Dr. C. A. Chant to emphasize its importance as a cultural subject in education and as a training for the advanced student. It was a part of his plan, even from a very early date, that the University should have an observatory and contribute to the knowledge of the subject, but it was hardly expected that the money for its erection would be obtained from the provincial grant to the University. In an institution striving to meet the needs of the Province and expanding rapidly, chief emphasis in the field of science is placed on subjects more immediately utilitarian. Not until these had been taken care of would the claims of a pure science like astronomy be considered....

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0266614779
• ISBN 13: 9780266614777
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 569