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Proceeding from the data presented in the Houzeau-Lancaster Bibliography (1882) the growth of the total sum of information in Astronomy from 1600 to 1880 is analysed and estimated that the time interval, within which the number of data is doubled, were about 25 years. It is inferred, taking thereby into account Teleki’s (1980) analysis of the number of catalogues of star positions within the same interval, that the growth of the total sum of the information in Astronomy as a whole has been more rapid — by about a quarter — than that relating to the catalogues alone. The ratio of the sum of papers and the total number of catalogues within this period is doubled in 69 years span.
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Houzeau, J.C. and Lancaster, A.: 1882, Bibliographie générale de l’astronomie (ed. by X. Havermans), Bruxelles, 2, LXXI.
Teleki, G.: 1980, Proc. Symp. “Aristarchos of Samos”, Athens.
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Teleki, G. (1982). Astronomical Activity in the Period 1600 to 1880. In: Mariolopoulos, E.G., Theocaris, P.S., Mavridis, L.N. (eds) Compendium in Astronomy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7766-2_3
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