Hardcovers in Brief From: The Washington Post | Date: May 20, 1990 | Copyright 1990 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

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The Astronomer's Universe: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmos, by Herbert Friedman (Norton, $24.95). Here, from the emeritus director of the Space Science Program at the Naval Research Laboratory, is a comprehensive treatment of astronomy written for the lay reader. The book comes complete with a glossary, and the text is interspersed with capsule biographies of famous astronomers, such as Jan Hendrik Oort, the Dutchman whose theory that all comets are escapees from a swarm of th...

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