A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy, Vol. 1: The Sun, Planets, and Comets (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

George Frederick Chambers

 
9780260322883: A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy, Vol. 1: The Sun, Planets, and Comets (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy<br/><br/>The last edition having reached to nearly 1000 pages it became quite clear that the now necessary additions would have swelled the work to a bulk and consequent price which probably the Public would not have regarded with favour. Accordingly when its division into two volumes became a necessity, I deter mined to make the two into three, and to complete the under taking as originally conceived twenty-nine years ago....

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