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These "Elementary Lessons in Astronomy" are intended, in the main, to serve as a text-book for use in Schools, but I believe they will be found useful to "children of a larger growth," who wish to make themselves acquainted with the basis and teachings of one of the most fascinating of the Sciences.
The arrangement adopted is new; but it is the result of much thought. I have been especially anxious in the descriptive portion to show the Sun's real place in the Cosmos, and to separate the real from the apparent movements. I have therefore begun with the Stars, and have dealt with the apparent movements in a separate chapter.
It maybe urged that this treatment is objectionable, as it reduces the mental gymnastic to a minimum; it is right, therefore, that I should state that my aim throughout the book has been to give a connected view of the whole subject rather than to discuss any particular parts of it; and to supply facts, and ideas founded on the facts, to serve as a basis for subsequent study and discussion. A companion volume to the present one - I allude to the altogether admirable "Popular Astronomy" from the pen of the Astronomer Royal -may, from this point of view, be looked upon as a sequel to two or three chanters in this book.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1330267613
- ISBN 13 9781330267615
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages406
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