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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> It may be folly to try to write a book on a subject where previous mile- stones have been set by books of men like Emden Eddington and Chandrasekhar. But since the writing of the latest of these milestones a rapid development has taken place in the theory of stellar structure. Under these circumstances I do hope one may not be thought presump- tuous for attempting to write a book for temporary use which aims to summarize the present state of our subject and thus to help prepare the next developments. And still I would have lacked the courage for this undertaking had it not been for three collaborators: Dr. Lyman Spitzer who critically af- fected the over-all plan of the book and section by section added essential improvements; Mr. Richard H?rm who derived most of the numerical ma- terial and prepared with care the tables and figures; and my wife who smoothed the English checked understandability and consistency and bolstered the writer’s persistence. For their collaboration I am deeply grateful. (LL)