PUBLICATIONS BY HARLOW SHAPLEY

This new edition of Shapley’s Bibliography greatly expands the resources available to the public through the Harlow Shapley Project.

 
 

SCHOLARLY JOURNALS & PUBLICATIONS

 

1909

Astronomy in Horace.  Popular Astronomy 17(7): 397-401.

1910

Provisional elements of the Algol variable 21.1910 RW Capricorni.  Astronomische Nachrichten 186(4457): 285-286.  [a]

Curious lunar theories of an ancient scientist.  Popular Astronomy 18(3): 132-136.  [b]

The Perseids of 1910.  Ibid 18(8): 486-488.  [c]

1911

Photometric measures of Nova 137.1910 Lacertae.  Astronomische Nachrichten 188(4493): 73-76.  [a]

Note concerning two BD stars.  Ibid 188(4500): 213-216.  [b]

1912

On the periods and secondary minima of some variable stars.  Astronomische Nachrichten 192(4589): 79-82.  [a]

A new variable star 34.1912 Tauri.  Ibid 193(4620): 227.  [b]

With Henry Norris Russell.  On darkening at the limb in eclipsing variables. I. Astrophysical Journal 36(3): 239-254.  [c]

Elements of the eclipsing variables W Delphini, S Cancri, SW Cygni and U Cephei.  Ibid 36(4): 269-295.  [d]

With Henry Norris Russell.  On darkening at the limb in eclipsing variables. II.  Ibid 36(5): 385-408.  [e]

Eclipsing binaries.  Popular Astronomy 20(9): 572-579.  [f]

Notes on the periods of 15 eclipsing variables.  Ibid 20(10): 655-656.  [g]

1913

The orbits of RZ Ophiuchi and ε Aurigae, treated as eclipsing binaries.  Astronomische Nachrichten 194(4645): 226-232.  [a]

Concerning the ellipsoidal variables SZ Tauri and S Antliae.  Ibid 194(4653): 353-360.  [b]

A new eclipsing binary whose spectroscopic orbit is known.  Ibid 196(4702): 383-384.  [c]

Variability of the light of Alcor.  Ibid 196(4703): 397-398.  [d]

The visual and photographic ranges and provisional orbits of Y Piscium and RR Draconis.  Astrophysical Journal 37(3): 154-163.  [e]

The orbits of eighty-seven eclipsing binaries --- a summary.  Ibid 38(2): 158-174.  [f]

Notes on the periods of nine eclipsing variables.  Popular Astronomy 21(3): 142-144.  [g]

1914

Remarks on the light variations of V Cephei.  Astronomische Nachrichten 196(4704): 417-420.  [a]

With Henry Norris Russell.  Elements of the eclipsing variable stars Z Draconis and RT Persei.  Astrophysical Journal 39(5): 405-427.  [b]

Intermediate degrees of darkening at the limb of stellar disks with an application to the orbit of Algol.  Ibid 40(2): 219-225.  [c]

The spectroscopic orbit of RX Herculis determined from three plates with a new photometric orbit and absolute dimensions.  Ibid 40(4): 399-416.  [d]

With Henry Norris Russell.  On the distribution of eclipsing variable stars in space.  Ibid 40(5): 417-434.  [e]

New variables in the center of Messier 3.  Ibid 40(5): 443-447.  [f]

On the nature and cause of Cepheid variation.  Ibid 40(5): 448-465.  [g]

With F. H. Seares.  Color variations of the cluster-type variable RS Boötis.  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 26(154): 202-204.  [h]

Color indices in the system of TW Andromedae.  Ibid 26(155): 258-260.  [i]

1915

Note concerning 88 d Tauri.  Astronomische Nachrichten 201(4801): 27-28.  [a]

Miscellaneous notes on variable stars.  Astrophysical Journal 41(4): 291-306.  [b]

Review of “Polhöhen-Schwankungen” by E. Przybyllok.  Ibid 41(4): 328-329.  [c]

With Martha Betz Shapley.  A study of the light curve of XX Cygni.  Ibid 42(2): 148-162.  [d]

Note on the densities of second-type stars.  Ibid 42(3): 271-282.  [e]

With Martha Betz Shapley.  The light curve of XX Cygni as a contribution to the study of Cepheid variation.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1(8): 452-456.  [f]

Second type stars of low mean density.  Ibid 1(8): 459-461.  [g]

With Frederick H. Seares.  Distribution of colors among the stars of NGC 1647 and M 67.  Ibid 1(9): 483-487.  [h]

Note on the color of the faint stars in the Orion nebula.  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 27(157): 40-41.  [i]

Four new variable stars in the Hercules cluster.  Ibid 27(159): 134.  [j]

Note on the periods of close binaries.  Ibid 27(159): 135.  [k]

A seventh variable star in the Hercules cluster.  Ibid 27(161): 238.  [l]

1916

On the changes in the spectrum, period, and light-curve of the Cepheid variable RR Lyrae.  Astrophysical Journal 43(3): 217-233.  [a]

The variations in the spectral type of twenty Cepheid variables.  Ibid 44(5): 273-291.  [b]

On the distribution of stars in globular clusters.  The Observatory 39(506): 452-456.  [c]

The colors of fifteen variables in M 3.  Popular Astronomy 24(4): 257.  [d]

Discovery of eight variable stellar spectra.  Ibid 24(6): 354-355.  [e]

Studies of magnitudes in star clusters, I. On the absorption of light in space.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2(1): 12-15.  [f]

Studies of magnitudes in star clusters, II. On the sequence of spectral types in stellar evolution.  Ibid 2(1): 15-18.  [g]

A short period Cepheid with variable spectrum.  Ibid 2(3): 132-136.  [h]

With Walter S. Adams.  The spectrum of δ Cephei.  Ibid 2(3): 136-142.  [i]

Discovery of eight variable stellar spectra.  Ibid 2(4): 208-209.  [j]

Studies of magnitudes in star clusters, III. The colors of the brighter stars in four globular systems.  Ibid 2(9): 525-528.  [k]

New light elements and revised orbit of UZ Cygni.  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 28(162): 31-32.  [l]

Absolute magnitude and color of a very faint star.  Ibid 28(162): 32-33.  [m]

The colors of fifteen variables in M 3.  Ibid 28(163): 81-82.  [n]

Six Cepheids with variable spectra.  Ibid 28(164): 126-127.  [o]

Outline and summary of a study of magnitudes in the globular cluster Messier 13.  Ibid 28(165): 171-176.  [p]

With Seth B. Nicholson.  The photographic magnitude of the ninth satellite of Jupiter.  Ibid 28(166): 281-282.  [q]

A new variable star.  Ibid 28(166): 282-283.  [r]

1917

With Seth B. Nicholson.  The orbit and probable size of a very faint asteroid.  Astronomical Journal 30(710): 127-128.  [a]

With Seth B. Nicholson.  Observations of the ninth satellite of Jupiter.  Ibid 30(710): 129-130.  [b]

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. I. The general problem of clusters.  Astrophysical Journal 45(2): 118-122.  [c]

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. II. Thirteen hundred stars in the Hercules cluster (Messier 13).  Ibid 45(2): 123-140.  [d]

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. III. A catalogue of 311 stars in Messier 67.  Ibid 45(2): 140-141.  [e]

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. IV. The galactic cluster Messier 11.  Ibid 45(3): 164-181.  [f]

With Francis G. Pease.  On the distribution of stars in twelve globular clusters.  Ibid 45(4): 225-243.  [g]

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. V. Color-indices of stars in the galactic clouds.  Ibid 46(1): 64-75.  [h]

With J. Van Der Bilt.  Notes on the color-curve and light-elements of W Ursae Majoris.  Ibid 46(4): 281-290.  [i]

Studies of magnitude in star clusters, IV. On the color of stars in the galactic clouds surrounding Messier 11.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 3(1): 25-29.  [j]

With Francis G. Pease.  Axes of symmetry in globular clusters.  Ibid 3(2): 96-101.  [k]

Studies of magnitude in star clusters, V. Further evidence of the absence of scattering of light in space.  Ibid 3(4): 267-270.  [l]

Studies of magnitude in star clusters. VI. The relation of blue stars and variables to galactic planes.  Ibid 3(4): 276-279.  [m]

Studies of magnitude in star clusters, VII. A method for the determination of the relative distances of globular clusters.  Ibid 3(6): 479-484.  [n]

Light elements of variable 37 in Messier 3.  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 29(168): 110-112.  [o]

With Helen Davis.  Messier’s catalog of nebulae and clusters.  Ibid 29(170): 177-179.  [p]  (Reprinted as 1918g)

A distant star in high galactic latitude.  Ibid 29(170): 183-184.  [q]

Descriptive notes relative to nine clusters.  Ibid 29(170): 185-186.  [r]

A faint nova in the Andromeda nebula.  Ibid 29(171): 213.  [s]

Note on the magnitudes of novae in spiral nebulae.  Ibid 29(171): 213-217.  [t]

The dimensions of a globular cluster.  Ibid 29(172): 245-248.  [u]

1918

With Walter S. Adams.  Note on the Cepheid variable SU Cassiopeiae.  Astrophysical Journal 47(1): 46-50.  [a]

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. VI. On the determination of the distances of globular clusters.  Ibid 48(2): 89-124.  [b]

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. VII. The distances, distribution in space, and dimensions of 69 globular clusters.  Ibid 48(3): 154-181.  [c]

With Frederick H. Seares.  The variation in light and color of RS Boötis.  Ibid 48(4): 214-240.  [d]

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. VIII. The luminosities and distances of 139 Cepheid variables.  Ibid 48(5): 279-294.  [e]

The cluster IC 361.  The Observatory 41(527): 257.  [f]

With Helen Davis.  Messier’s catalog of nebulae and clusters.  Ibid 41(529): 318-320.  [g]  (Reprint of 1917p)

Studies of magnitude in star clusters, VIII. A summary of results bearing on the structure of the sidereal universe.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 4(8): 224-229.  [h]

Globular clusters and the structure of the galactic system.  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 30(173): 42-54.  [i]

With Helen Davis.  Note on the distribution of stars in the globular cluster Messier 5.  Ibid 30(174): 164-165.  [j]

Note on the distant cluster NGC 6440.  Ibid 30(176): 253.  [k]

The age of the Earth.  Ibid 30(177): 283-298.  [l]

1919

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. IX. Three notes on Cepheid variation.  Astrophysical Journal 49(1): 24-41.  [a]

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. X. A critical magnitude in the sequence of stellar luminosities.  Ibid 49(2): 96-107.  [b]

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. XI. A comparison of the distances of various celestial objects.  Ibid 49(4): 249-265.  [c]

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. XII. Remarks on the arrangement of the sidereal universe.  Ibid 49(5): 311-336.  [d]  (Reprinted in part as 1999)

With Martha B. Shapley.  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. XIII. The galactic planes in 41 globular clusters.  Ibid 50(1): 42-49.  [e]

With Martha B. Shapley.  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. XIV. Further remarks on the structure of the galactic system.  Ibid 50(2): 107-140.  [f]

On the existence of external galaxies.  Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 13(10): 438-446.  [g]

Globular clusters, Cepheid variables, and radiation.  Nature 103(2576): 25-27.  [h]

The age of the stars.  Ibid 103(2589): 284.  [i]

Obituary---Michel Luizet.  The Observatory 42(535): 60.  [j]

Note on the explanation of the absence of globular clusters from the mid-galactic regions.  Ibid 42(536): 82-84.  [k]

Darkening at the limb of a pulsating variable star.  Ibid 42(538): 168-170.  [l]

Star clusters and their contribution to knowledge of the universe.  Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 58(6): 337-345.  [m]

Studies of magnitude in star clusters, IX. The distances and distribution of seventy open clusters.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 5(8): 344-351.  [n]

With Seth B. Nicholson.  On the spectral lines of a pulsating star.  Ibid 5(10): 417-423.  [o]

Studies of magnitude in star clusters, X. Spectral type B and the local stellar system.  Ibid 5(10): 434-440.  [p]

Obituary---Dr. Michel Luizet.  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 31(179): 62-63.  [q]

Nineteen new variable stars.  Ibid 31(182): 226.  [r]

The “new star” in Serpens, 7.1917.  Ibid 31(182): 226-230.  [s]

On the existence of external galaxies.  Ibid 31(183): 261-268.  [t]

Note on a sensitive spectrographic arrangement.  Ibid 31(183): 278-280.  [u]

With J. C. Duncan.  Novae in the Andromeda nebula.  Ibid 31(183): 280-281.  [v]

Star clusters and the structure of the universe. I. The rôle of variable stars in the measurement of great stellar distances.  Scientia 26(90): 269-276.  [w]

Star clusters and the structure of the universe. II. Globular clusters as cosmic units.  Ibid 26(91): 353-361.  [x]

Age of the Earth.  Scientific American Supplement 87(2246): 34-35, 42-43.  [y]

1920

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. XV. A photometric analysis of the globular cluster system Messier 68.  Astrophysical Journal 51(1): 49-61.  [a]

With Helen N. Davis.  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. XVI. Photometric catalogue of 848 stars in Messier 3.  Ibid 51(3): 140-178.  [b]

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. XVII. Miscellaneous results.  Ibid 52(2): 73-85.  [c]

With Mary Ritchie.  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. XVIII. The periods and light-curves of 26 Cepheid variables in Messier 72.  Ibid 52(4): 232-247.  [d]

A note on the simple device for increasing a photographic power of large telescopes.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 6(3): 127-130.  [e]

Thermokinetics of Liometopum Apiculatum Mayr.  Ibid 6(4): 204-211.  [f]

Studies of magnitude in star clusters, XI. Frequency of curves the absolute magnitude and color index for 1152 giant stars.  Ibid 6(6): 293-300.  [g]

With Helen N. Davis.  Studies of magnitude in star clusters, XII. Summary of a photographic investigation of the globular cluster system Messier 3.  Ibid 6(8): 486-489.  [h]

Preliminary reports on Pteregates in Pogonomyrmex Californicus.  Ibid 6(12): 687-690.  [i]

Note on Pteregates in the California harvester ant.  Psyche 27(4): 72-74.  [j]

Notes from Pacific coast observatories: W Virginis.  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 32(186): 156-158.  [k]

Notes from Pacific coast observatories: Photometric parallaxes of nine Cepheid variables.  Ibid 32(186): 162-163.  [l]

Star clusters and the structure of the universe. III. On the dimensions and arrangement of the galactic system.  Scientia 27(94): 93-101.  [m]

Star clusters and the structure of the universe. IV. The secondary galaxy and the local stellar group.  Ibid 27(95): 185-193.  [n]

External galaxies: Are there other stellar systems similar to our own?  Scientific American Monthly 1(5): 392-395.  [o]

1921

Measure space by light year.  Asbury Park Press, September 7, 1921.  [a]

Distance des amas d’étoiles.  L’Astronomie 35: 41.  [b]

The local cluster.  Astronomische Nachrichten 213(5102): 231-232.  [c]

The galactic distribution of stars of spectral class B.  Astronomische Nachrichten Jubiläumsausgabe: 25-26.  [d]  (Reprinted as 2009)

With Myrtle L. Richmond.  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. XIX. A photometric survey of the Pleiades.  Astrophysical Journal 54(5): 323-333.  [e]

With Heber D. Curtis.  The scale of the universe.  Bulletin of the National Research Council 2.3(11): 171-217.  [f]

The measuring sticks of the universe.  Calgary Herald, September 14, 1921.  [g]  (Identical to 1921a)

Stellar universe is dish shaped system of stars.  Houston Post, August 20, 1921.  [h]  (Identical to 1921a)

Note on a possible factor in changes of geological climate.  Journal of Geology 29(6): 502-504.  [i]

The measuring sticks of the universe.  Kansas City Star, August 21, 1921.  [j]  (Identical to 1921a)

Note on changes in the period and light-curve of the cluster variable SW Andromedae.  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 81(3): 208-213.  [k]

With Beatrice W. Mayberry.  Studies of magnitude in star clusters, XIII. Variable stars in N. G. C. 7006.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 7(5): 152-154.  [l]

Novae and variable stars.  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 33(194): 185-194.  [m]

Surveying the solar neighborhood.  Riverside Daily Press, August 24, 1921.  [n]  (Identical to 1921a)

Surveying solar area.  Rocky Mountain News, September 16, 1921.  [o]  (Identical to 1921a)

The size of the galaxy. I. New results from a study of star clusters and the structure of the universe.  Scientific American Monthly 4(3): 196-199.  [p]

The size of the galaxy. II. New results from a study of star clusters and the structure of the universe.  Ibid 4(4): 339-343.  [q]

 

1922

El sistima galactico.  Boletin del Observatorio Nacional (Cuba) 18(11): 213-226.  [a]

The universe and life.  Harper’s Monthly Magazine 146: 716-722.  [b]

Island universes.  Harvard Graduates’ Magazine 30(120): 473-477.  [c]

What we really know about Mars.  The Mentor 10(7): 38-40.  [d]

Linear dimensions of clusters.  Monthly Evening Sky Map 16(189): np.  [e]

The galactic system. I.  Nature 110(2764): 545-547.  [f]

The galactic system. II.  Ibid 110(2765): 578-581.  [g]

Universitets dimensioner.  Nordisk Astronomisk Tidsskrift 3: 1-21.  [h]

The dimensions of Messier 3.  Popular Astronomy 30(2): 130.  [i]

Note on the velocity of light.  Ibid 30(3): 192-193.  [j]

Parallax of Messier 5.  Ibid 30(3): 193-194.  [k]

Giant stars near the Pleiades.  Ibid 30(3): 195.  [l]

Note on the problem of great stellar distances.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 8(4): 69-71.  [m]

Stars and atoms.  Tech Engineering News 2(8): 204, 220, 224.  [n]

1923

Notes on modern cosmography.  Harvard Alumni Bulletin 25(28): 831-834.  [a]

The galactic system.  Popular Astronomy 31(5): 316-327.  [b]

Light and color variations of Nova Aquilae 1918.4.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 9(2): 39-40.  [c]

On the relative velocity of blue light.  Ibid 9(11): 386-390.  [d]

Relativity and the Australian eclipse.  The Youth’s Companion 97(32): 473.  [e]

1924

With Edward C. Jeffrey & Kirsopp Lake.  Origin of life.  The Forum 72(1): 100-109.  [a]

With Edward C. Jeffrey & Kirsopp Lake.  The origin of life.  Harvard Alumni Bulletin 26(19): 514-525.  [b]

Beyond the bounds of the Milky Way.  The Mentor 12(7): 58-59.  [c]

Man and his young world.  The Nation 118(3070): 529-531.  [d]

The distribution of stars.  Popular Astronomy 32(7): 418-423.  [e]

With Annie J. Cannon.  Summary of a study of stellar distributions.  Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 59(9): 215-231.  [f]

Note on the thermokinetics of Dolichoderine ants.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 10(10): 436-439.  [g]

The distribution of the stars.  Scientific Monthly 18(5): 449-455.  [h]

The Magellanic clouds.  In Probleme der Astronomie; Festschrift für H. von Seeliger. (Berlin, DE: Julius Springer Verlag), 438-441.  [i]

1925

The coming eclipse.  Harper’s Monthly Magazine 150(896): 162-168.  [a]

How big is the universe?  Ibid 150(900): 648-657.  [b]

Eclipses.  Harvard Alumni Bulletin 27(16): 469-472.  [c]

The Magellanic clouds and their bearing on the problem of stellar ages.  Scientia 38: 69-78.  [d]

Eclipses of Sun, Moon and stars.  The Youth’s Companion 99(5): 71.  [e]

Science.  In Immanuel Kant 1724-1924, edited by E. C. Wilm. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), 51-67.  [f]

1926

With Theodore Lyman, Walter B. Cannon, C.C. Pratt, Harry Houdini & S. Burt Wohlbach.  Report of the $5000 award committee appointed by the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology.  Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 20(4): 359-361.  [a]

With Cecilia H. Payne.  On the distribution of intensity in stellar absorption lines.  Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 61(10): 459-486.  [b]

Galakticheskaia sistema.  Russkii Astronomicheskii Kalendar 29: 3-21.  [c]

What are the stars?  In The Universe of Stars. Radio Talks from the Harvard Observatory, edited by Harlow Shapley & Cecilia H. Payne. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Observatory), 3-8.  [d]

The origin of the planets.  Ibid, 49-57.  [e]

The age of the Earth.  Ibid, 88-97.  [f]

Measuring the universe.  Ibid, 149-159.  [g]

Life on other worlds.  Ibid, 186-199.  [h]

1927

With W. F. H. Waterfield.  The photographic study of long period variable stars.  Popular Astronomy 35(9): 505-509.  [a]

In their own country: University’s eminent astronomers, pioneers and leaders in all phases of work, too little appreciated by Princetonians.  Princeton Alumni Weekly 27: 771-772.  [b]

Raspredelenie zvezd.  Russkii Astronomicheskii Kalendar 30: 177-184.  [c]

Research notes from the Harvard Observatory.  Science 66(1703): 174-176.  [d]

1928

Harvard in South Africa.  Harvard Alumni Bulletin 30(36): 1065-1067.  [a]

Harvard’s search for the center of the universe.  Ibid 31(5): 133-138.  [b]

The centre of the galaxy.  Nature 122(3074): 482-484.  [c]

Rain of meteors seen supplying Sun’s fuel need: Consumption of solar body’s mass estimated to exhaust 4,000,000 tons a second.  New York Herald Tribune, October 7, 1928.  [d]

Request for observations of special variable stars.  The Observatory 51(645): 50-51.  [e]

Studies of the galactic center. I. The program for Milky Way variable stars.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 14(11): 825-829.  [f]

With Henrietta H. Swope.  Studies of the galactic center. II. Preliminary indications of a massive galactic nucleus.  Ibid 14(11): 830-834.  [g]

Studies of the galactic center. III. The absolute magnitudes of long period variables.  Ibid 14(12): 958-962.  [h]

The South African station of Harvard Observatory.  Science 67(1733): 297-298.  [i]

Research notes from the Harvard Observatory.  Ibid 68(1753): 100-102.  [j]

1929

If May 9 is a fine day.  The Christian Science Monitor, March 8, 1929.  [a]

The center of the universe.  The Forum 81(6): 371-374.  [b]

With Alexis Carrel & James R. Angell.  Taking inventory of the world’s mind.  New York Times, March 31, 1929.  [c]

Studies of the galactic center. IV. On the transparency of the galactic star clouds.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 15(3): 174-177.  [d]

Notes on the velocities and magnitudes of external galaxies.  Ibid 15(7): 565-570.  [e]

Star clusters.  In The Encyclopædia Britannica, 14th Edition, Volume 21. (New York, NY: Encyclopædia Britannica), 331-335.  [f]

1930

Compute orbit of new planet: California astronomers find it a billion miles beyond that of Neptune.  New York Times, April 7, 1930.  [a]

A photographic investigation of twenty-five southern Cepheid variable stars.  Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 64(11): 347-464.  [b]

Ten unsolved mysteries of the stellar universe.  Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 69(1): 13-17.  [c]

Der mittelpunkt des weltalls.  Unsere Welt 22: 97-101.  [d]

1931

New astronomical explorations.  Journal of the Western Society of Engineers 36(1): 1-14.  [a]

The unknown universe.  New York Times, October 11, 1931.  [b]

Science at the threshold of a golden age in astronomy: Through the use of more powerful telescopes Dr. Shapley predicts great progress in solving such problems of the universe as the evolution of galaxies, cosmic radiation and the life of stars.  Ibid, November 8, 1931.  [c]

On the apsidal motion of a faint eclipsing binary.  Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 66(12): 469-477.  [d]

Sidereal explorations.  Rice Institute Pamphlet – Rice Institute Studies 18(2): 45-115.  [e]

Obituary. Professor Solon I. Bailey.  Science 74(1906): 29-30.  [f]

The Harvard program of galactic explorations.  Ibid 74(1913): 207-212.  [g]

Observational data tells story showing expanding universe.  Central Press Association/King Features Syndicate “Whos Who and Timely Views,” January 13, 1931.  [h]  (Appeared in numerous newspapers between January 13th and January 18th)

Wanted a new system of mechanics to reach into unknown spaces: Newtonian laws insufficient to determine the extent of the universe.  Central Press Association/King Features Syndicate “Whos Who and Timely Views,” October 20, 1931.  [i]  (Appeared in numerous newspapers between October 20th and October 28th)

1932

Heavenly body nears.  The Buffalo News, May 10, 1932.  [a]

Mapping the paths of meteors.  Discovery 13: 187-188.  [b]

With Ernst J. Öpik & Samuel L. Boothroyd.  The Arizona expedition for the study of meteors.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 18(1): 16-23.  [c]

1933

The universe described in 10 minutes.  Daily Boston Globe, March 26, 1933.  [a]

A contribution to the study of galactic dimensions.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 19(1): 29-34.  [b]

On the distribution of galaxies.  Ibid 19(4): 381-393.  [c]

Luminosity distribution and average density of matter in twenty-five groups of galaxies.  Ibid 19(6): 591-596.  [d]

With Jenka Mohr.  Summary of a variable star survey in an external galaxy.  Ibid 19(12): 995-996.  [e]

On the linear diameters of 125 large galaxies.  Ibid 19(12): 1001-1006.  [f]

Address on “The Cosmic parade” by Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory.  Science 77(1994): 272-274.  [g]

On facts and fancies in cosmogony.  Sigma Xi Quarterly 21(1): 1-2.  [h]

Stellar clusters.  In Handbuch der Astrophysik. Band V/Zweite Hälfte, edited by G. Eberhard, A. Kohlschütter & H. Ludendorff. (Berlin, DE: Julius Springer Verlag), 698-773.  [i]

1934

On some structural features of the metagalaxy.  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 94(9): 791-816.  [a]

Variation and evolution among the stars.  Science 80(2035): 539-540.  [b]

Some high lights of astronomy during the past year.  Ibid 80(2081): 439-440.  [c]

1935

Credulity.  National Council of Supervisors of Elementary Science 1: 43.  [a]

A study of 7900 external galaxies.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 21(11): 587-592.  [b]

With Arthur R. Sayer.  The angular diameters of globular clusters.  Ibid 21(11): 593-597.  [c]

1936

Summary of investigations of variable stars.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 22(1): 8-14.  [a]

Conspicuous astronomical advances of the year.  Science 84(2185): 430-431.  [b]

Chapter 5. Stellar clusters.  In Handbuch der Astrophysik. Band VII, edited by G. Eberhard, A. Kohlschütter & H. Ludendorff. (Berlin, DE: Julius Springer Verlag), 534-545.  [c]

On the lifetime of a galaxy.  In Time and Its Mysteries. Series I. Four Lectures Given on the James Arthur Foundation. (New York, NY: New York University Press), 39-55.  [d]

1937

With John S. Paraskevopoulos.  The nuclear star cluster in 30 Doradus.  Astrophysical Journal 86(3): 340-342.  [a]

A survey of thirty-six thousand southern galaxies.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 23(8): 449-453.  [b]

1938

Two stellar systems of a new kind.  Nature 142(3598): 715-716.  [a]

Note on the problem of the expanding universe.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 24(3): 148-154.  [b]

A metagalactic density gradient.  Ibid 24(7): 282-287.  [c]

Second note on a metagalactic density gradient.  Ibid 24(12): 527-531.  [d]

Pulsation.  The Telescope 5: 42.  [e]

David Rittenhouse, an American pioneer.  Ibid 5: 67.  [f]

1939

The wide horizon: Transcending boundaries.  The Christian Science Monitor, August 9, 1939.  [a]

William Henry Pickering (1858-1938).  Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 73(6): 142-143.  [b]

A determination of the distance to the galactic center.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 25(3): 113-118.  [c]

Galactic and extragalactic studies, I. On the corona of stars around the galactic system.  Ibid 25(8): 423-428.  [d]

Galactic and extragalactic studies, II. Notes on the peculiar stellar systems in Sculptor and Fornax.  Ibid 25(11): 565-569.  [e]

Three supernovae in the spiral NGC 3184.  Ibid 25(11): 569-571.  [f]

 

1940

Concerning stars and galaxies.  The Barnwell Bulletin 17(70): 6-13.  [a]  (Reprinted as 1943f)

With J. S. Paraskevopoulos.  Galactic and extragalactic studies, III. Photographs of thirty southern nebulae and clusters.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 26(1): 31-36.  [b]

With Constance D. Boyd.  Galactic and extragalactic studies, IV. Photometry of two large southern clusters of galaxies.  Ibid 26(1): 41-49.  [c]

With Virginia McKibben.  Galactic and extragalactic studies, V. The period frequency of classical Cepheids in the Magellanic clouds.  Ibid 26(2): 105-115.  [d]

Galactic and extragalactic studies, VI. Summary of a photometric summary of 35,500 galaxies in high southern latitudes.  Ibid 26(3): 166-175.  [e]

With Virginia McKibben & Jenka Mohr.  Galactic and extragalactic studies, VII. Magnitudes of 40 Cepheids in the large Magellanic cloud.  Ibid 26(5): 326-332.  [f]

Galactic and extragalactic studies, VIII. A new determination of the period-luminosity curve.  Ibid 26(9): 541-549.  [g]

With Rebecca B. Jones.  Galactic and extragalactic studies, IX. A photometric survey of 22,000 galaxies in the zone from δ=+41° to δ=+46°.  Ibid 26(9): 554-551.  [h]

With Rebecca B. Jones.  Galactic and extragalactic studies, X. Note on the latitude effect and radial gradients in the northern galactic hemisphere.  Ibid 26(10): 599-604.  [i]

Galactic and extragalactic studies, XI. Note on the period frequency of galactic Cepheids.  Ibid 26(12): 681-688.  [j]

Fourth comet of the year is found by Harvard man.  Science News Letter 38(15): 231.  [k]

Advances in explorations of galaxies.  The Telescope 7: 5-10.  [l]

1941

Introduction to the conference on the internal constitution of the stars.  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 41(1): 3-4.  [a]

Galactic and extragalactic studies, XII. The giant globular cluster 47 Tucanae and its long-period variables.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 27(9): 440-445.  [b]

With Henry A. Wallace, Vannevar Bush, Charles G. Darwin & Edwin G. Conklin. Two decades of science.  Science News Letter 40(25): 389-392.  [c]

The wing of the small Magellanic cloud.  The Telescope 8: 15-16.  [d]

In memoriam. Annie Jump Cannon 1863-1941.  Ibid 8: 53-55.  [e]

The brightest globular cluster, 47 Tucanae.  Ibid 8: 90-91.  [f]

1942

Harvard---and ‘Fight for a free world.’  The Christian Science Monitor, June 13, 1942.  [a]

Galactic and extragalactic studies, XIII. Note on the comparative diameters of spheroidal and spiral galaxies.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 28(5): 186-191.  [b]

With Virginia McKibben & Richard A. Craig.  Galactic and extragalactic studies, XIV. On the magnitude dispersion in the period-luminosity relationship.  Ibid 28(5): 192-199.  [c]

With Virginia McKibben.  Galactic and extragalactic studies, XV. On the distribution of periods for 343 Cepheids in the small Magellanic cloud.  Ibid 28(5): 200-204.  [d]

Galactic and extragalactic studies, XVI. Photographic amplitudes of classical Cepheids.  Ibid 28(11): 501-507.  [e]

Mexican postage stamps have astronomical theme.  Science News Letter 42(14): 212-213.  [f]

Galaxies.  Sigma Xi Quarterly 30(1): 1-15.  [g]  (Reprinted as 2011)

Harvard-Peruvian researches on galaxies.  In Proceedings of the Eighth American Scientific Congress. VII. Physical and Chemical Processes. (Washington, DC: United States Department of State), 75.  [h]

Galaxies.  In Science in Progress. Third Series, Sigma Xi National Lectureships 1941 and 1942, edited by George A. Baitsell. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), 1-21.  [i]

1943

Editorial.  American Scholar 12(4): 389-390.  [a]

In the name of Copernicus.  American Scientist 31(2): 177-178.  [b]  (Reprinted as 1943c)

Galaxies.  Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1942 (3705): 133-144.  [c]

In the name of Copernicus.  The Humanist (summer 1943): 68-69.  [d]  (Reprint of 1943a)

Thomas Jefferson as natural philosopher.  Nature 152(3850): 178-180.  [e]

Notes on Thomas Jefferson as a natural philosopher.  Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 87(3): 234-237.  [f]

Stars are international.  Science News Letter 43(11): 165-167.  [g]

Concerning stars and galaxies.  In The Barnwell Addresses. Volume III: 1937-1943, edited by John Louis Haney. (Philadelphia, PA: Central High School), 199-208.  [h]  (Reprint of 1940a)

1944

Trends in the metagalaxy.  American Scientist 32(1): 65-77.  [a]

Postwar international education.  The Christian Science Monitor, May 11, 1944.  [b]

All galaxies and stars once clustered about our own.  The Daily Record (Long Branch, NJ), September 8, 1944.  [c]

On quadricentennials.  The Key Reporter 10(1): 2.  [d]

Education for all.  New York Herald Tribune, April 28, 1944.  [e]

Total solar eclipse of January 25, 1944.  Popular Astronomy 52(2): 107.  [f]

Galactic and extragalactic studies, XVII. Revision of the distances of thirty high-latitude globular clusters.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 30(3): 61-68.  [g]

Educating toward international tolerance.  Tomorrow 3(10): 45-47.  [h]

Allied office for education.  Washington Post, May 3, 1944.  [i]

On the problem of being central.  In The Centenary of the Cincinnati Observatory. November 5, 1943. (Cincinnati, OH: Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio & University of Cincinnati), 47-59.  [j]

1945

On the astronomical dating of the Earth’s crust.  American Journal of Science 243(A-Reginald Aldworth Daly Volume): 508-522.  [a]

An assortment of horizons.  American Scholar 14(3): 370-374, 376-379.  [b]

A design for fighting.  Ibid 14(1): 19-32.  [c]

A design for fighting.  American Scientist 33(2): 84-102.  [d]

Science and internationalism.  Ibid 33(4): 260-261.  [e]

A design for fighting.  The Atlantic Monthly 176(2): 107-114.  [f]

Status quo or pioneer?  Harper’s Monthly Magazine 191(1145): 312-317. [g]

On the natural history of globular star clusters.  Journal of the Franklin Institute 239(6): 419-410.  [h]

The arts and S-380.  New Masses 56(13): 7-8.  [i]

An astronomer looks at the atom.  Ibid 57(9): 7-8.  [j]

With James Marshall & George N. Shuster.  Layman praised for work done on San Francisco proposals.  New York Times, June 10, 1945.  [k]

The Harvard College Observatory.  Science 101(2621): 304-305.  [l]

He expanded the universe.  Sky & Telescope 4(39): 3-4.  [m]

Scientists have looked into their valley of death and found their voices.  Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), December 1, 1945.  [n]

A design for fighting.  In Representative American Speeches: 1944-1945. The Reference Shelf, 18(3), edited by A. Craig Baird. (New York, NY: H. W. Wilson), 245-271.  [o]

1946

The scientist outside the laboratory.  American Scholar 15(4): 411-415.  [a]

The charter and challenge of UNESCO.  American Scientist 34(1): 106-114.  [b]

Latin American collaboration.  Journal of Chemical Physics 14(2): 113.  [c]

It must be peace on Earth.  Parents’ Magazine 21(12): 14.  [d]

The time is now.  The Phi Delta Kappan 28(3): 115.  [e]

Answers in the sky.  Science Illustrated 1: 28-31.  [f]

It’s an old story with the stars.  In One World or None, edited by Dexter Masters & Katharine Way. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill), 7-9.  [g]

1947

Science and the humanist’s ganglia.  American Scholar 16(4): 465-468.  [a]

Secrecy in science.  American Scientist 35(4): 525-535.  [b]

On the astronomical dating of the Earth’s crust.  Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1946 (3871): 139-150.  [c]

La gran galaxia de Sculptor.  Ciencia e Investigación 3: 3-11.  [d]

Must we climb steeples?  Journal of Higher Education 18(9): 447-459.  [e]

Können wir die Zivilisation retten?  Neues Europa 2(10): 2-5.  [f]

Astronomy and international cooperation.  Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 91(1): 73-74.  [g]

The utility of meteors.  Popular Astronomy 55(3): 117-120.  [h]  (Reprinted as 1947k)

Liaison with youth.  Scientific Monthly 64(4): 347.  [i]

Men are inventive: Will they devote the products of their ingenuity to human welfare?  In The Crisis of Mankind. The Urgent Educational Tasks of the University in Our Time. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), 54-59.  [j]

The uses and hopes of scientific societies.  In Physical Science and Human Values. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), 74-97.  [k]

The utility of meteors.  In Scientists Speak, edited by Warren Weaver. (New York, NY: Boni & Gaer), 44-48.  [l]  (Reprint of 1947h)

1948

Why amend the golden rule?  American Scholar 17(2): 137-138.  [a]

With Virginia McKibben Nail.  Cepheid variable stars in the small Magellanic cloud.  Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 92(4): 310-323.  [b]

Galactic and extragalactic studies, XVIII. The pulse index for eighty-nine variable stars in the Magellanic clouds.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 34(1): 27-32.  [c]

With Virginia McKibben Nail.  Galactic and extragalactic studies, XIX. Giant variable stars in the loop nebula (30 Doradus).  Ibid 34(5): 173-179.  [d]

With L. C. Dunn, Alice Hamilton, Leo Loeb & Duncan A. MacInnes.  The American-Soviet Science Society.  Science 108(2802): 279.  [e]

One world of stars.  Ibid 108(2804): 315-321.  [f]

Triennial meeting of the International Astronomical Union.  Ibid 108(2812): 553-554.  [g]

Time and change in the metagalaxy.  Science and Culture 14(1): 5-15.  [h]

Time and change in the metagalaxy.  Scientific Monthly 67(4): 243-253.  [i]

Some astronomical highlights of 1948.  Sky & Telescope 8: 42-44.  [j]

The relative frequency of low luminosity eclipsing binaries.  In Centennial Symposia, edited by Margaret W. Mayall, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Bart J. Bok & Charles A. Federer, Jr. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Observatory), 249-260.  [k]

Must we climb steeples?  In Learning and World Peace. Eighth Symposium, edited by Lyman Bryson, Louis Finkelstein & R. M. MacIver. (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers), 645-658.  [l]  (Reprint of 1947e)

1949

Peace or pieces?  American-Scandinavian Review 37(1): 31-35.  [a]

A half century of globular clusters.  Popular Astronomy 52(5): 203-228.  [b]

The standard Cepheid light curve.  Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 93(1): 40-44.  [c]

Cosmic science and social order.  Science 109(2834): 399-401.  [d]

The committee on Inter-American Scientific Publication.  Ibid 109(2842): 603-605.  [e]

Galactic rotation and cosmic seasons.  Sky & Telescope 9: 36-37.  [f]

1950

Relative diameters of galaxies.  Nature 166: 192.  [a]

Galactic and extragalactic studies, XX. On the distribution of 78,000 of the brighter northern galaxies.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 36(3): 157-166.  [b]

Scientists’ responsibility for preventing war.  Science 111(2872): 41-42.  [c]

Kirtley F. Mather: President elect, AAAS.  Ibid 111(2876): 131-132.  [d]

Astronomy, 1900-1950.  Scientific American 183: 24-27.  [e]

1951

A survey of the inner metagalaxy.  American Scientist 39(4): 610-628.  [a]

With Virginia McKibben Nail.  NGC 1866 and the Magellanic cloud variables.  Astronomical Journal 55(1188): 249-251.  [b]

Exploraciones en tres galaxias.  El Universo 49: 103-104.  [c]

Prefatory note.  Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 79(4): 185-186.  [d]

Proxima Centauri as a flare star.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 37(1): 15-18.  [e]

Magellanic clouds. I. Transparency.  Ibid 37(3): 133-138.  [f]

With Virginia McKibben Nail.  Magellanic clouds. II. Supergiant red variable stars in the small cloud.  Ibid 37(3): 138-145.  [g]

Galactic and extragalactic studies, XXI. Distribution of 95,000 galaxies in the northern galactic cap.  Ibid 37(4): 191-196.  [h]

Smog in space.  Science 113(2834): 3a.  [i]

More probes into interstellar space.  Ibid 113(2939): 3.  [j]

Flare stars and the radio.  Ibid 113(2945): 3.  [k]

Watcher of the southern skies.  Sky & Telescope 10: 169.  [l]

The science student in an uneasy world.  Yale Scientific Magazine 25(8): 11-12, 34, 36.  [m]

1952

With Virginia McKibben Nail.  Magellanic clouds. III, Differential absorption within the large cloud.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 38(4): 281-286.  [a]

With Virginia McKibben Nail.  Magellanic clouds, IV. On the period frequency anomalies.  Ibid 38(4): 286-289.  [b]

With Ann B. Hearn.  Galactic and extragalactic studies, XXII. Extent of the galaxy in the anticenter octant.  Ibid 38(10): 839-843.  [c]

Two period-frequency anomalies for classical Cepheids.  Sky & Telescope 11: 275-276.  [d]  (Reprinted as 1968b)

II. Ants, galaxies, and men.  In Moments of Personal Discovery, edited by R. M. MacIver. (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers), 15-26.  [e]

1953

Note on the distribution of RR Lyrae variables.  Astronomical Journal 58(1209): 141-144.  [a]

Life on other planets.  The Atlantic Monthly 192(5): 29-32.  [b]

An alphabet of the universe.  Gentry 7: 42-48.  [c]

Shapley refutes charges.  Harvard Crimson, February 13, 1953.  [d]

Report on programmes of galactic measurement.  Irish Astronomical Journal 2(7):181-192.  [e]

The Rumford bicentennial.  Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 82(7): 253-265.  [f]

With Virginia McKibben Nail.  Magellanic clouds, V. Fifty eclipsing stars.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 39(1): 1-5.  [g]

Magellanic clouds, VI. Revised distances and luminosities.  Ibid 39(5): 349-357.  [h]

With Virginia McKibben Nail.  Magellanic clouds, VII. Star colors and luminosities in five constellations.  Ibid 39(5): 358-362.  [i]

Magellanic clouds, VIII. On the population characteristics of the two clouds.  Ibid 39(12): 1161-1168.  [j]

A test for high latitude absorption as a factor in the distribution of galaxies.  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 65(386): 237-241.  [k]

1954

Cosmography: an approach to orientation.  American Scientist 42(3): 471-486.  [a]

Note on the light variations of Proxima Centauri.  Astronomical Journal 59(1215): 118-119.  [b]

With Leah B. Allen & Naomi Greenstein.  New variable stars in Centaurus.  Ibid 59(1219): 270-271.  [c]

With Virginia McKibben Nail.  Magellanic clouds, X. An evaluation of the zero point correction.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 40(1): 1-5.  [d]

Investigaciones sobre Omega Centauri el cumulo estelar gigante.  Revista Astronomica 26.II(135): 61-69.  [e]

Harvard Observatory director appointed.  Sky & Telescope 13: 143,149.  [f]

Human ideals and the cosmic view.  In New Horizons in Creative Thinking: A Survey and Forecast, edited by R. M. MacIver. (New York, NY: Institute for Religious and Social Studies), 1-9.  [g]

 

1955

Summary of a survey of the borders of the southern Milky Way.  Liège International Astrophysical Colloquia 6: 430-436.  [a]

With Virginia McK. Nail.  Note on the tilt of the large Magellanic cloud.  The Observatory 75(886): 120-122.  [b]

With Virginia McKibben Nail.  The Magellanic clouds. XIV. The bar of the large cloud.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 41(4): 185-190.  [c]

With Virginia McKibben Nail.  The Magellanic clouds. XV. On the tilt of the large cloud.  Ibid 41(10): 685-690.  [d]

The Magellanic clouds. XVI. Infrared stars and stellar evolution.  Ibid 41(11): 824-828.  [e]

With Virginia McKibben Nail.  Magellanic clouds. XVII. Seven notes on the Cepheid variables.  Ibid 41(11): 829-836.  [f]

With Jacqueline Sweeney.  Galactic and extragalactic studies, XXIII. Opacity of the southern Milky Way dust clouds.  Ibid 41(11): 837-842.  [g]

1956

Man’s fourth adjustment.  American Scholar 25(4): 453-457.  [a]

The clouds of Magellan. A gateway to the sidereal universe.  American Scientist 44(1): 73-97.  [b]

We are not alone.  The Christian Register. Unitarian 135(6): 9, 38.  [c]

A farewell to the Academy House on Newbury Street.  Daedalus 86(2): 110-112.  [d]

Benjamin Franklin and one Plutonic year.  Journal of the Franklin Institute 261(1): 55-59.  [e]

A famed astronomer reports new concepts on the galaxies: Stars help trim man’s inflated ego.  New York Herald Tribune, November 18, 1956.  [f]

A master of stellar spectra.  Sky & Telescope 15: 401.  [g]

Galactic and extragalactic studies at the Harvard Observatory.  Vistas in Astronomy 2: 1563-1573.  [h]

1957

The scholar’s scratch pad: A digression on great moments.  American Scholar 26(3): 354-355.  [a]

Long range foresight.  The Christian Register. Unitarian 136(5): 10-11, 27.  [b]

Satellite hysteria.  The Nation 185(13): 276-277.  [c]

On the maximum attainable stellar luminosities.  Proceedings of the National Academy of India 26(I)A: 1-5.  [d]

Dean of American astronomers.  Sky & Telescope 16: 260-261.  [e]  (Reprinted as 1968a)

Photosynthesis and life on other planets.  In Rhythmic and Synthetic Processes in Growth, edited by Dorothea Rudnick. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), 201-205.  [f]

New horizons for living.  In The Creative Power of the Mind. The Scientific Use of Your Thought for Abundant Living, edited by Willis H. Kinnear. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall), 110-116.  [g]  (Reprinted as 1966d)

1958

Henry Norris Russell. 1877-1957. A biographical memoir.  Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 32: 354-378.  [a]

Coming to terms with the cosmos: Man must grow to reach the stars.  The Saturday Review, September 6, 1958.  [b]

A revised look at mankind.  The Unitarian Register 137(5): 18-19.  [c]

1959

The scholar’s scratch pad: Some music from the spheres.  American Scholar 28(2): 218-221.  [a]

Habitable planets.  The Bucknell Review 8(4): 219-224.  [b]

On the astronomical highlights of a half century.  Irish Astronomical Journal 5: 190-194.  [c]

There is more to the universe than meets the eye.  Space Digest 2(2): 74-75.  [d]  (Reprinted as 1962e)

1960

Variable stars of the Magellanic clouds.  Astronomical Society of the Pacific Leaflet No. 372.  [a]

The human response to an expanding universe.  Hibbert Journal 58(231): 319-328.  [b]

With E. M. Lindsay.  A nebulous oval in the large Magellanic cloud.  The Observatory 80(919): 223-224.  [c]

On evidences of inorganic evolution.  Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 3(2): 222-237.  [d]

Exploding stars and the universe.  Science Digest 5: 9-13.  [e]

You and the Queen of Sheba: The breathing link.  Vogue 135(6): 108-109, 154.  [f]

On theoretical science.  In The Creative Mind and Method, edited by Jack D. Summerfield & Lorlyn Thatcher. (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press), 89-93.  [g]

On the evidences of inorganic evolution.  In Evolution After Darwin. Volume I. The Evolution of Life: Its Origin, History, and Future, edited by Sol Tax. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press), 23-38.  [h]

Stars, ethics, and survival.  In Science Ponders Religion, edited by Harlow Shapley. (New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts), 1-16.  [i]  (Reprinted as 1961c and 1961e)

1961

Star mass tops that of Sun’s.  The Austin American, January 15, 1961.  [a]

The riddle of God, man and outer space.  Coronet 49(4): 40-44.  [b]

Stars, ethics, and survival.  Religion in Life 31: 334-344.  [c]  (Reprint of 1960h)

The probable environment on other planets.  In The Biology of Space Travel. Symposia of the Institute of Biology No. 10, edited by N. W. Pirie. (London, UK: Institute of Biology), 107-115.  [d]

Stars, ethics, and survival.  In Central Conference of American Rabbis. Seventy-First Annual Convention, Volume 70, edited by Sidney L. Regner. (Philadelphia, PA: Central Conference of American Rabbis), 214-230.  [e]  (Reprint of 1960h)

Organization in nature.  In The Fate of Man, edited by Crane Brinton. (New York, NY: George Braziller), 71-76.  [f]  (An excerpt from Of Stars and Men)

[Remarks] in Life in Other Worlds. A Symposium Sponsored by Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., on the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Samuel Bronfman Foundation. (New York, NY: Samuel Bronfman Foundation), 25-27, 42, 47-51.  [g]

1962

Crusted stars and self-warming planets.  American Scholar 31(4): 512-515.  [a]

Some notes on planetary life.  Bulletin of the National Institute of Sciences of India 19A: 25-32.  [b]

New horizons via the telescope: Astronomers and their remarkable instruments peer ever deeper in the heavens to add to our growing knowledge of a ‘hundred thousand million billion stars.’  New York Times, March 11, 1962.  [c]

Crusted stars and self-warming planets.  Revista. Serie A. Matematica y Fisica Teorica (Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Publicación No. 861) 14(1/2): 69-75.  [d]

Life on tiny, dark stars.  Science News Letter 82(3): 39.  [e]

There is more to the universe than meets the eye.  In Speaking of Space. The Best from Space Digest, edited by Richard M. Skinner & William Leavitt. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company), 27-31.  [f]  (Reprint of 1959d)

Sir Harold Spencer Jones (1890-1960).  In Year Book 1961. (Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society), 125-128.  [g]

1963

With E. M. Lindsay.  A catalogue of clusters in the large Magellanic cloud.  Irish Astronomical Journal 6: 74-91.  [a]

The universe – how big? Its beginning? Its end?: Easy to ask, hard to answer.  Minneapolis Morning Tribune, January 14, 1963.  [b]

‘Big bang,’ ‘No bang’ or ‘Bang, Bang, Bang’?  Ibid, January 21, 1963.  [c]

Life almost certain on planets of other stars.  Ibid, January 28, 1963.  [d]

Life on unseen planets.  Science Digest 53: 59-64.  [e]

An inquiry concerning other worlds.  In Exploring the Universe, edited by Louise B. Young. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill), 304-307.  [f]  (An excerpt from Of Stars and Men)

Concerning life on stellar surfaces.  In The Scientist Speculates. An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, edited by Irving John Good, Alan James Mayne & John Maynard Smith. (London, UK: William Heinemann), 225-232.  [g]

You and the Queen of Sheba.  In The World of Vogue, edited by Bryan Holme, Katharine Tweed, Jessica Davies & Alexander Liberman. (New York, NY: Viking Press), 354-356.  [h]  (Reprint of 1960f)

1964

Quelques objectifs prioritaires.  Revue Tiers Monde 5(20): 677-678.  [a]

Galaxies and their human worth.  In Symbols and Society: Fourteenth Symposium of the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion, edited by Lyman Bryson, Louis Finkelstein, Hudson Hoagland & R. M. MacIver. (New York, NY: Cooper Square Publishers), 511-528.  [b]

1965

Il mondo del secondo Copernico: Marte e Venere diventano giocattoli cosmici.  Il Giorno, November 2. 1965.  [a]

The dimensions of the universe.  In From Atoms to Infinity. Readings in Modern Science, edited by Clifford D. Simak. (New York, NY: Harper & Row Publishers), 3-12.  [b]

The origin of the universe.  Ibid 13-20.  [c]

Life in the universe.  Ibid 21-29.  [d]

1966

Out of the whirlwind.  American Scholar 35(4): 690-694.  [a]

Ten revelations of achievements.  Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 30(2): 67-70.  [b]

Life, hope, and cosmic evolution.  Zygon 1(3): 275-285.  [c]

New horizons for living.  In The Creative Power of the Mind. The Scientific Use of Your Thought for Abundant Living, edited by Willis H. Kinnear. (Los Angeles, CA: Science of Mind Publications), 110-116.  [d]  (Reprint of 1957g)

Encounter theory modified.  In The Origin of the Solar System, Genesis of the Sun and Planets, and Life on Other Worlds, edited by Thornton Page & Lou Williams Page. (New York, NY: Macmillan), 212-213.  [e]  (Reprint of 1937)

1967

A master of stellar spectra.  In Starlight. What it Tells Us About the Stars, edited by Thornton Page & Lou Williams Page. (New York, NY: Macmillan), 139-140.  (Reprint of 1956g)

1968

Dean of American astronomers.  In The Evolution of Stars. How They Form, Age, and Die, edited by Thornton Page & Lou Williams Page. (New York, NY: Macmillan), 11-14.  [a]  (Reprint of 1957e)

Two period-frequency anomalies for classical Cepheids.  In Stars and Clouds of the Milky Way. The Structure and Motion of Our Galaxy, edited by Thornton Page & Lou Williams Page. (New York, NY: Macmillan), 44-47.  [b]  (Reprint of 1952d)

1969

With P. D. Usher, B. S. P. Shen, F. W. Wright & C. M. Hanley.  Long-term behavior of the Seyfert galaxy 3C 120.  Astrophysical Journal 158(11): 535-539.

1999

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. XII. Remarks on the arrangement of the sidereal universe. (abridged).  Astrophysical Journal Centennial Issue 525(C): 137-147.  (Reprint of 1919d)

2009

The galactic distribution of stars of spectral type B.  Astronomische Nachrichten Highlights Issue 330(6): 645-646.  (Reprint of 1921c)

2011

Galaxies. (abridged).  American Scientist 99(1): 56-58.  (Reprint of 1942g)


 

BULLETINS OF THE LAWS OBSERVATORY

 

2(17).  The antalgol variable ST Ophiuchi (52.1907).:1-14.  [Masters Thesis  1911]

2(17).  New elements for RW Camelopardalis.:15-16.  [Masters Thesis  1911]

2(19).  With Eli Stuart Haynes.  The Algol variable RZ Draconis (26.1907).:33-46.  [1911]

2(21).  The rotating ellipsoid RU Camelopardalis.:71-84.  [1913]


 

CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE
PRINCETON OBSERVATORY

 

(3).  A study of the orbits of eclipsing binaries.:xiii+176.  [Doctoral Thesis  1915]


 

CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE
MOUNT WILSON OBSERVATORY

 

5(86).  Intermediate degrees of darkening at the limb of stellar disks with an application to the orbit of Algol: 33-40.  [1914]

5(90).  Spectroscopic orbit of RX Herculis determined from three plates with a new photometric orbit and absolute dimensions: 81-98.  [1914]

5(91).  New variables in the center of Messier 3: 99-104.  [1914]

5(92).  On the nature and cause of Cepheid variation: 105-122.  [1914]

5(99).  Miscellaneous notes on variable stars: 313-328.  [1915]

5(104).  With Martha Betz Shapley.  A study of the light curve of XX Cygni: 395-410.  [1915]

6(107).  Note on the densities of second-type stars: 33-44.  [1915]

6(112).  On changes in the spectrum, period, and light-curve of the Cepheid variable RR Lyrae: 167-184.  [1916]

6(115).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. First paper: The general problem of clusters: 201-222.  [1916]

6(116).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Second paper: Thirteen hundred stars in the Hercules cluster (Messier 13): 223-310.  [1916]

6(117).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Third paper: A catalogue of 311 stars in Messier 67: 315-330.  [1916]

7(124):  The variations in spectral type of twenty Cepheid variables: 1-20.  [1917]

7(126).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Fourth paper: The galactic cluster Messier 11: 29-46.  [1917]

7(129).  With Francis G. Pease.  On the distribution of stars in twelve globular clusters: 59-78.  [1917]

7(133).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Fifth paper: Color-indices of stars in the galactic clouds: 141-152.  [1917]

7(140).  With J. van der Bilt.  Notes on the color-curve and light-elements of W Ursae Majoris: 285-294.  [1917]

7(145).  With Walter S. Adams.  Note on the Cepheid variable SU Cassiopeiae: 365-370.  [1918]

8(151).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Sixth paper: On the determination of distances of globular clusters: 81-116.  [1918]

8(152).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Seventh paper: The distances, distribution in space, and dimensions of 69 globular clusters: 117-144.  [1918]

8(153).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Eighth paper: The luminosities and distances of 139 Cepheid variables: 145-160.  [1918]

8(154).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Ninth paper: Three notes on Cepheid variation: 161-178.  [1919]

8(155).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Tenth paper: A critical magnitude in the sequence of stellar luminosities: 179-190.  [1919]

8(156).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Eleventh paper: A comparison of the distances of various celestial objects: 191-208.  [1919]

8(157).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Twelfth paper: Remarks on the arrangement of the sidereal universe: 209-234.  [1919]

8(159).  With Frederick H. Seares.  The variation in light and color of RS Boötis: 271-298.  [1919]

8(160).  With Martha B. Shapley.  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Thirteenth paper: The galactic planes in 41 globular clusters: 299-306.  [1919]

8(161).  With Martha B. Shapley.  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Fourteenth paper: Further remarks on the structure of the galactic system: 307-340.  [1919]

9(175).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Fifteenth paper: A photometric analysis of the globular system Messier 68: 71-84.  [1920]

9(176).  With Helen N. Davis.  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Sixteenth paper: Photometric catalogue of 848 stars in Messier 3: 85-124.  [1920]

9(190).  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Seventeenth paper: Miscellaneous results: 323-336.  [1920]

9(195).  With Mary Ritchie.  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Eighteenth paper: The periods and light-curves of 26 Cepheid variables in Messier 72: 379-394.  [1920]

10(218).  With Myrtle L. Richmond.  Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. Nineteenth paper: A photometric survey of the Pleiades: 265-274.  [1921]


 

ANNALS OF THE
HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY

 

81(7).  Color index and photographic light curve of Nova Aquilae 1918.4 (No. 3): 239-243.  [1923]

85(6).  With Donald H. Menzel & Leon Campbell, Jr.  Descriptions and positions of 2,829 new nebulae: 113-142.  [1930]

88(2).  With Adelaide Ames.  A survey of external galaxies brighter than the thirteenth magnitude: 41-75.  [1932] 

90(1).  With Jenka Mohr.  Survey of 1,346 variables in the Large Magellanic cloud: 1-25.  [1933]

88(4).  The angular diameters of bright galaxies: 93-103.  [1934]

88(5).  A catalogue of 7,889 external galaxies in Horologium and surrounding regions: 105-164.  [1935]

90(4).  With Emily M. Hughes.  Variable stars at high galactic latitudes: 163-176.  [1935]

105(8).  Thirty-six thousand galaxies in the south polar cap: 137-208.  [1938]

105(13).  With Constance D. Boyd.  Distant variable stars at low galactic latitudes: 243-254.  [1938]

106(1).  With Rebecca B. Jones.  Survey of 16,639 galaxies north of declination +70°: 1-38.  [1938]

106(3).  With Jacqueline Sweeney & Pedro Kokaras.  Survey of galaxies along the southern Milky Way: 75-79.  [1938]

90(9).  With Emily H. Boyce & Constance D. Boyd.  Four hundred new variable stars in a transparent low-latitude region: 239-251.  [1939]

90(5).  With Henrietta H. Swope.  New variable stars in low galactic latitudes: 177-188.  [1940]

90(10).  With Virginia McKibben.  The light curves of forty selected Cepheids in the large Magellanic cloud: 253-261.  [1940]

109(11).  With Alice Swain Carlston & Virginia McKibben Nail.  The light curves of forty-nine selected Cepheids in the small Magellanic cloud: 47-56.  [1943]

88(7).  With Rebecca B. Jones & Virginia McKibben Nail.  A census of northern galaxies in an area of 3600 square degrees: 177-184.  [1950]


 

ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF HARVARD COLLEGE

 

77th [1923]; 78th [1924]; 79th [1925]; 80th [1926]; 81st [1927]; 82nd [1928]; 83rd [1929]; 84th [1930]; 85th [1931]; 86th [1932]; 87th [1933]; 88th [1934]; 89th [1935]; 90th [1936]; 91st [1937]; 92nd [1938]; 93rd [1939]; 94th [1940]; 95th [1941]; 96th [1942]; 97th [1943]; 98th [1944]; 99th [1945]; 100th [1946]; 101st [1947]; 102nd [1948]; 103rd [1949]; 104th [1950]; 105th [1951]; 106th [1952]; 107th [1953].


 

BULLETINS OF THE
HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY

 

(760)-(761) [1921];  (762)-(765), (767)-(780) [1922];  (781)-(796) [1923];  (797)-(800), (803)-(805), (807)-(809) [1924];  (810), (812)-(814), (816), (821), (823), (828) [1925];  (831), (834)-(835), (838), (840)-(841) [1926];  (842)-(843), (846)-(849), (851)-(852) [1927];  (854), (856)-(862) [1928];  (864)-(866), (868)-(870) [1929];  (872)-(880) [1930];  (881), (883)-(884) [1931];  (885)-(887), (889)-(890) [1932];  (895)-(896) [1934];  (898)-(899), (901) [1935];  (902)-(904) [1936];  (905) [1937];  (907)-(909) [1938];  (912)-(914) [1940];  (916) [1941];  (917) [1943];  (919) [1949].


 

PUBLICATIONS OF THE
OBSERVATORY OF MICHIGAN

 

10.  Comparison of the Magellanic clouds with the galactic system.  [1951]


 

BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS

 

Starlight. The Humanizing of Knowledge Series. (New York, NY: George H. Doran), --+143.  [1926]

The Universe of Stars. Radio Talks from the Harvard Observatory, edited by Harlow Shapley with Cecilia H. Payne. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Observatory), ix+205.  [1926]

The Stars. Reading with a Purpose, Volume 30. (Chicago, IL: American Library Association), --+28.  [1927]

A Source Book in Astronomy, edited by Harlow Shapley with Helen E. Howarth. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill), xvi+412.  [1929]

Flights from Chaos. A Survey of Material Systems from Atoms to Galaxies. (New York, NY: Whittlesey House), vii+168.  [1930]

Star Clusters. Harvard College Observatory Monograph No. 2. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill), xi+276.  [1930]

A Treasury of Science, 1st Edition, edited by Harlow Shapley with Samuel Rapport & Helen Wright. (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers), xi+716.  [1943]

Galaxies, 1st Edition. (Philadelphia, PA: Blakiston), vii+229.  [1943]

A Treasury of Science, Revised Edition, edited by Harlow Shapley with Samuel Rapport & Helen Wright. (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers), xii+772.  [1946]

Readings in the Physical Sciences, edited by Harlow Shapley with Helen Wright & Samuel Rapport. (New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts), xiii+501.  [1948]

Climatic Change. Evidence, Causes, and Effects, edited by Harlow Shapley. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), xii+318.  [1953]

A Treasury of Science, 3rd Edition, edited by Harlow Shapley with Samuel Rapport & Helen Wright. (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers), xii+726.  [1954]

The Inner Metagalaxy. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), xiii+204.  [1957]

A Treasury of Science, 4th Edition, edited by Harlow Shapley with Samuel Rapport & Helen Wright. (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers), xiii+776.  [1958]

Of Stars and Men. Human Response to an Expanding Universe. (Boston, MA: Beacon Press), vi+157.  [1958]

A Source Book in Astronomy. 1900-1950, edited by Harlow Shapley. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), xv+423.  [1960]

Science Ponders Religion, edited by Harlow Shapley. (New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts), x+308.  [1960]

Galaxies, Revised Edition. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), --+186.  [1961]

A Treasury of Science, 5th Edition, edited by Harlow Shapley with Samuel Rapport & Helen Wright. (New York, NY: Grolier), xiii+788.  [1963]

The View from a Distant Star. Man’s Future in the Universe. (New York, NY: Basic Books), ix+212.  [1963]

Of Stars and Men. The Human Response to an Expanding Universe, Revised & Illustrated Edition. (Boston, MA: Beacon Press), iii+134.  [1964]

With Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs & Antoinette de Vaucouleurs.  Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies. (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press), --+268.  [1964]  (Revision of Annals of Harvard College Observatory 88(2): 44-76)

The New Treasury of Science, edited by Harlow Shapley with Samuel Rapport & Helen Wright. (New York, NY: Harper & Row), vi+762.  [1965]

Beyond the Observatory. (New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons), --+223.  [1967]

Through Rugged Ways to the Stars. Ad astra per aspera. (New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons), vii+180.  [1969]

With Paul Hodge.  Galaxies, 3rd Edition. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), x+232.  [1973]


 

CIRCULARS OF THE
HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY

 

(226).  With Annie J. Cannon.  On the relation of spectral type to magnitude.  [1921]

(228).  With Bertil Lindblad.  The distances of fifty stars determined from objective prism spectra.  [1921]

(229).  With Annie J. Cannon.  The local system and stars of class A.  [1922]

(232).  With Martha B. Shapley.  The distances of 27 bright stars of class K.  [1922]

(236).  With Arville D. Walker.  The variations in light and color of Y Sagittarii.  [1922]

(237).  Notes bearing on the distances of clusters.  [1922]

(239).  With Annie J. Cannon.  The distribution of stars of spectral class B.  [1922]

(240).  On the spectral constitution of the nearer parts of the Milky Way.  [1922]

(243).  With Adelaide Ames.  Distances of two hundred and thirty-three southern stars.  [1923]

(245).  With Annie J. Cannon.  The distribution of stars of spectral class M.  [1923]

(246).  Distances to one hundred and sixteen southern stars.  [1923]

(247).  With Leon Campbell.  Light curves of the two abnormal variables T and R Coronae Borealis.  [1923]

(248).  Spectral class, apparent magnitude, and galactic position for stars of the Henry Draper Catalogue.  [1923]

(254).  On the dwarf stars in the Orion Nebula.  [1924]

(255).  The Magellanic Clouds, I. The distance and linear dimensions of the small cloud.  [1924]

(257).  Notes on Jeans’ theory of the origin of stars.  [1923]

(260).  The Magellanic Clouds, II. The luminosity curve for giant stars.  [1924]

(268).  The Magellanic Clouds, III. The distance and linear dimensions of the large cloud.  [1924]

(271).  With Harvia H. Wilson.  The Magellanic Clouds, IV. The absolute magnitudes of nebulae, clusters, and peculiar stars in the large cloud.  [1925]

(275).  With Harvia H. Wilson.  The Magellanic Clouds, V. The absolute magnitudes and linear diameters of 108 diffuse nebulae.  [1925]

(276).  With Harvia H. Wilson.  The Magellanic Clouds, VI. Positions and descriptions of 170 nebulae in the small cloud.  [1925]

(278).  Concerning the extension of the Henry Draper Catalogue.  [1925]

(280).  With Issei Yamamoto & Harvia H. Wilson.  The Magellanic Clouds, VII. The photographic period-luminosity cure.  [1925]

(281).  Note on obscuring cosmic clouds in high galactic latitudes.  [1925]

(285).  With Helen E. Howarth.  On the distribution of stars of class F.  [1925]

(288).  With Margaret L. Walton.  The Magellanic Clouds, VIII. Note on the spectral composition of the foreground.  [1925]

(292).  With Ida E. Woods.  Variability of the “iron star” XX Ophiuchi.  [1926]

(294).  With Adelaide Ames.  A study of a cluster of bright spiral nebulae.  [1926]

(313).  With Margaret L. Walton.  Investigations of Cepheid variables. I. The period-spectrum relation.  [1927]

(314).  Investigations of Cepheid variables. II. The period-luminosity relationship for galactic Cepheids.  [1927]

(315).  Investigations of Cepheid variables. III. Cluster type variables and theories of Cepheid variation.  [1927]

(316).  With Margaret L. Walton.  Investigations of Cepheid variables. IV. Beta Doradus, a new fourth magnitude Cepheid.  [1927]

(317).  With Cecilia H. Payne.  Spectroscopic evidence of the fall of meteors into stars.  [1927]

(350).  The super-galaxy hypothesis.  [1930]

(398).  With William A. Calder.  The apsidal motion in the orbit of u Herculis, derived from a photoelectric investigation.  [1935]

(411).  Variable stars and galaxies in a southern Milky Way field.  [1936]

(423).  The distribution of eighty-nine thousand galaxies over the south galactic cap.  [1937]

(425).  The regression of the apsides in the orbit of u Herculis.  [1937]

(439).  With Virginia McKibben.  A summary of the periods and median magnitudes of Magellanic cloud Cepheids.  [1940]


 

BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS IN TRANSLATION

 

Galaxias. (Buenos Aires, AR: Pleamar), --+260.  [1947]  (Galaxies)

Izmenenie Klimata, translated by I. M. Šejnisa & S. Û. Geller. (Moscow, RU: Izdatel’stvo Innostrannoj Literatury), --+358.  [1958]  (Climatic Change. Evidence, Causes, and Effects)

Världsrymden och vi Människans Plats i den Nya Världsbilden, translated by Lennart Edberg. (Stockholm, SE: Natur och Kultur), --+169.  [1959]  (Of Stars and Men. Human Response to an Expanding Universe)

Le Stelle e l’Uomo: Reazione Umana di Fronte a un Universo in Espansione, translated by Livio Gratton. (Milan, IT: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore), --+194.  [1961]  (Of Stars and Men. Human Response to an Expanding Universe)

Tāre Aura Manushya.  Brahmāṇḍa ke Baṛhate hue Vistāra kī Mānavīya Pratikriyā, translated by Nihālakaraṇa Seṭhī. (Lucknow, IN: Hindī Samiti Sūcanā Vibhāga), --+180.  [1962]  (Of Stars and Men. Human Response to an Expanding Universe)

De Estrellas y Hombres: la Respuesta Humana a un Universo en Expansión, translated by María Teresa Toral. (Mexico City, MX: Fondo de Cultura Económica), --+204.  [1963]  (Of Stars and Men. Human Response to an Expanding Universe)

Utblick från en Fjärran Stjärna, translated by Lo Håkansson. (Stockholm, SE: Rabén & Sjögren), --+210.  [1965]  (The View from a Distant Star. Man’s Future in the Universe)

O Futuro do Homem no Universo, translated by Luiz Costa Lima. (Rio de Janeiro, BR: Zahar Editôres), --+204.  [1965]  (The View from a Distant Star. Man’s Future in the Universe)

Wir Kinder der Milchstraβe. Die Evolution aus den Tiefen des Kosmos. (Düsseldorf, DE & Vienna, AT: Econ Verlag), --+272.  [1965]  (The View from a Distant Star. Man’s Future in the Universe)

El Mundo Desde un Estrella: El Futuro del Hombre en el Universo, translated by Rodolfo E. Schwarz. (Buenos Aires, AR: Hobbs-Sudamericana), --+234.  [1968]  (The View from a Distant Star. Man’s Future in the Universe)

Galaktyka, translated by Józef Smak. (Warsaw, PL: Państowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe), --+249.  [1968]  (Galaxies)

Al-‘llm: Assrāruh wa-Khafāyāh, 3 Volumes, edited by Harlow Shapley with Samuel Rapport, Helen Wright & Ḥusayn Sa‘īd, translated by Muḥammad Ṣābir Salīm & Muḥammad Jamāl Fandī. (Cairo, EG: Maktabat Gharīb).  [1971]  (The New Treasury of Science)


 

FOREWORDS & EPILOGUES TO BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS

 

Introduction to Stellar Atmospheres. A Contribution to the Observational Study of High Temperature in the Reversing Layers of Stars, by Cecilia H. Payne. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Observatory), v-vi.  [1925]

Introduction to Amateur Telescope Making, edited by Albert G. Ingalls. (New York, NY: Scientific American Publishing), xi-x.  [1928]

Introduction to A Manual of Celestial Photography. Principles and Practice, by Edward Skinner King. (Boston, MA: Eastern Science Supply), iii-iv.  [1931]

Introduction to Handbook of the Heavens, edited by Hubert J. Bernhard, Dorothy A. Bennett & Hugh S. Rice. (New York, NY: Whittlesey House), xi-xiv.  [1935]

Introduction to Science in Progress, edited by George A. Baitsell. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), vii-viii.  [1939]

Introduction to Science from Shipboard. What to do Aboard the Transport, edited by the Boston-Cambridge Branch of the American Association of Scientific Workers. (Washington, DC: Science Service), 7-9.  [1943]

Introduction to The Naming of the Telescope, by Edward Rosen. (New York, NY: Henry Schuman), xiii-xvi.  [1947]

Introduction to Science, Servant of Man. A Layman’s Primer for the Age of Science, by I. Bernard Cohen. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company), vi-ix.  [1948]

Introduction to Careers and Opportunities in Science. A Survey of All Fields, by Philip Pollack. (New York, NY: Dutton), 5-8.  [1954]

Introduction to All About the Planets, by Patricia Lauber. (New York, NY: Random House), ix-x.  [1960]

Introduction to The Universe, by David Bergamini. (New York, NY: Time-Life Books), 7.  [1964]

Epilogue to The Poison Belt, by Arthur Conan Doyle. (New York, NY: Macmillan), 147-154.  [1964]


 

ORAL HISTORIES

 

Harlow Shapley.  Interview of Harlow Shapley by Simone Daro Gossner in 1959.  In Wisdom for Our Time, edited by James Nelson.  (New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company), 145-157.  [1961]

Harlow Shapley. I.  Interview of Harlow Shapley by Charles Weiner and Helen Wright on 1966 June 8, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA.  [1966]

Harlow Shapley. II.  Interview of Harlow Shapley by Charles Weiner and Helen Wright on 1966 August 25, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA.  [1966]