Harlow-Shapley Symposium on Globular Cluster Systems in Galaxies

In the centennial year, 1985-86, of Harlow Shapley''s birth, the study of globular clusters was no less important to the development of astronomy than in 1915, when Shapley first noted their concentration on the sky. By 1917 Shapley had used the properties of the system of globular clusters to complete the Copernican revolution and locate the solar system, and its Earth-bound observers, far from t...