Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
GT Barnes & Noble, 2009-01-23. Holy crap, what an awesome little book! Truly a perfect text (and only $13.95, god bless the good folk at Dover Math Publications)! Why this isn't issued to every incoming freshman at technological universities (along with a few other select treatises like Schrödinger's What is Life?, A Mathematician's Apology and maybe Primo Levi's The Periodic Table) is beyond me -- it presents in a little over 200 pages a comprehensive, beautifully-united, rigorous coverage of nuclear theory. I offer it my highest praise: Had I have had this book 10 years ago, I'd be much smarter today, have understood much more and made finer, broader, more exquisite syntheses. Alas! Make much of time!
This book is NOT current but it is quite important to gain perspective in the development astronomical spectroscopy. Perhaps the most important part of this work is that a number of formula are derived.