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THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. 



of Spectrum Analysis as deserving of the highest place 

 among the numerous great scientific achievements of the 

 nineteenth century. 1 



1 An admirable popular account of the application of the spectro 

 scope to the heavens will be found in an article on "The New 

 Astronomy," in the Nineteenth Century of June, 1897. It is written 

 by Sir William Huggins, the greater part of whose life has been 

 devoted to this branch of the science, in which he was one of the 

 earliest and most successful observers and discoverers. 





