A summary of the findings is given by HerrmannD. B. in “An exponential law for the establishment of observatories in the nineteenth century”, Journal for the history of astronomy, iv (1973), 57–58. A more detailed account is to be published in Die Sterne, xlix (1973).
2.
Price's most famous treatments of this subject are given in Little science, big science (New York, 1965) and Science since Babylon (New Haven, 1961).
3.
SchroeerDietrich, Physics and its fifth dimension: Society (Reading, Mass., 1972), ch. 3.
4.
National Academy of Sciences, Ground-based astronomy: A ten-year program (Washington, D.C., 1964).
5.
National Academy of Sciences, Astronomy and astrophysics for the 1970s, i (Washington, D.C., 1972).
6.
Op. cit. (ref. 4), 73; and (ref. 5), 69.
7.
BerendzenR. and MoslenM. T., “Manpower and employment in American astronomy”, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, cxcviii (1972), 46–65; and BerendzenR. and DoyleR. O., “Manpower and employment in American astronomy”, in National Academy of Sciences, Astronomy and astrophysics for the 1970s, ii (Washington, D.C., 1973).
8.
Clearly, if this rate were maintained indefinitely, Schroeer's (op. cit., ref. 3) apocryphal conclusion would not be valid: Long before all Americans became physicists they would become astronomers!.
9.
With so many variables operative, intuition could be misleading in this analysis. Whereas in the last century astronomy was confined solely to the visible part of the spectrum, today it ranges from gamma-rays to radio-waves, with appropriate instruments and observatories at each wavelength interval. Thus a census of modern astronomical detectors should include such diverse instruments as orbiting observatories, balloon-borne telescopes, neutrino counters, and radio arrays.
