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English, N. (2018). The Impact of Mount Wilson’s 60-Inch Reflector. In: Chronicling the Golden Age of Astronomy. Historical & Cultural Astronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97707-2_37
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