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Harlow Shapley (November 2, 1885 – October 20, 1972) was an American astronomer, who served as head of the Harvard College Observatory from 1921–1952, and political activist during the latter New Deal and Fair Deal. (From Wikipedia) More about Harlow Shapley:
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| | Books by Harlow Shapley: Additional books by Harlow Shapley in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: Circulars / Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College (The Observatory, 1895), also by Edward C. Pickering and Harvard College Observatory (page images at HathiTrust)- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: Flights from chaos; a survey of material systems from atoms to galaxies, adapted from lectures at the College of the city of New York, Class of 1872 foundation. (Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1930) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: Observations and investigations made at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in the year 1921, under the direction of Alexander McAdie. (Cambridge, Mass. : The Observatory, 1922., 1922), also by George Porter Paine, Willard J. Fisher, and Alexander McAdie (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: On the distribution of intensity in stellar absorption lines. (Harvard [College Observatory], 1926), also by Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: On the distribution of intensity in stellar absorption lines, also by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Gutenberg ebook)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: The orbits of eighty-seven eclipsing binaries--a summary. ([Chicago], 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: Photographic magnitudes of bright stars north of +57⁰.5. ([Harvard College Observatory?], 1933), also by Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin and Harvard College Observatory (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: Radio talks from the Harvard observatory; the universe of stars (The Observatory, 1926), also by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Harvard College Observatory (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: The scale of the universe, by Harlow Shapley ... and Heber D. Curtis. (Published by the National research council of the National academy of sciences, 1921), also by Heber Doust Cutis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: A source book in astronomy (McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1929), also by Helen E. Howarth (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: Star clusters (Pub. for the observatory by the McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1930) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: Starlight (George H. Doran company, 1926) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: The stars (American Library Association, 1927), also by American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972, ed.: Stellar atmospheres : A contribution to the observational study of high temperature in the reversing layers of stars, by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Gutenberg ebook)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters ([Chicago?, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters : fifteenth paper: a photometric analysis of the globular system messier 68 (Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution, 1920., 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: A study of the orbits of eclipsing binaries (The Observatory, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972: The universe of stars, based on Radio talks from the Harvard observatory. (The Observatory, 1929), also by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Harvard College Observatory (page images at HathiTrust)
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