Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius (1851-1922)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3760. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Dutch astronomer, who, at the University of Groningen, and with the aid of convicts from a prison nearby, measured photographic plates taken by DAVID GILL at the Cape of Good Hope. He compiled a catalog of half a million southern stars, from which he derived values for the density of stars in space as a function of distance, brightness and spectral class, extending Herschel's work (see HERSCHEL F...

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