Edit. Columbia University Press, 1966 New York / London. 8ºM (21×14,5cm). 81 págs. Tela editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Cubierta deslucida con roces y faltas. Signos de uso. «This book presents the lectures given by Professor Fred Hoyle at Columbia University under the Bampton Lectures in America series. In the first lecture, the author discusses -frem the astronomer’s point of view- astronomy and space research. Professor Hoyle questions the immediate relation between the two and believes that, although telescopes in space will play an outstanding role in the astronomy of the future, the most substantial furtherance of astronomy rests upon an expansion of groundbased equipment programs -not space programs. His objections are not space programs per se but space programs presented to the public as astronomical research.»