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First Steps To Astronomy And Geography by First Steps. This early 19th-century educational primer, issued in London 1828 by Hatchard and Son, presents astronomy and geography in a dialogic, plate-illustrated format designed for children. The book leads readers through a sequence of chapters beginning with Firmament, Great Bear, Pole Star, Little Bear, Pointers, and Globe, then Form of the Earth and Diurnal Rotation; subsequent chapters cover the Rotation of the Sun, Fixed Stars, Milky Way, Constellations, and Humboldt's travel extracts; it then introduces the life of James Ferguson; continues with Motion of the Planets, Mercury to Herschel, Transit and Eclipses, Moon Phases, and Forms of Moons; it discusses Artificial Globes, Circles on Globes, Angles, Seasons, and the Horizon. The work explains Latitude and Longitude, First Meridian, and how to read maps, and ends with England, Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas, and Oceanic regions. The tone is didactic but accessible, using conversations between a Mother and children to illuminate celestial and terrestrial phenomena and to foster geography awareness.
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