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Letters on Astronomy, in Which the Elements of the Science Are Familiarly (!) Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855. Excerpt: ... LETTERS ON ASTRONOMY. LETTER I. INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. 4 Ye sacred Muses, with whose beauty fired, My soul is ravished, and my brain inspired, Whose priest I am, whose holy fillets wear; "Would you your poet's first petition hear, Give me the ways of wandering stars to know, The depths of heaven above, and earth below; Teach me the various labors of the moon, And whence proceed th' eclipses of the sun; Why fiowitig tides prevail upon the main, And in what dark recess they shrink again What shakes the solid earth, what cause delays The Summer nights, and shortens Winter days." Drydm's Firgtl To Mrs. C M Dear Madam, --In the conversation we recently held on the study of Astronomy, you expressed a strong desire to become better acquainted with this noble science, but said you had always been repelled by the air of-severity which it exhibits, arrayed as it is in so many technical terms, and such abstruse mathematical processes: or, if you had taken up some smaller treatise, with the hope of avoiding these perplexities, you had always found it so meager and superficial, as to afford you very little satisfaction. You asked, if a work might not be prepared, which would convey to the general reader some clear and adequate knowledge of the great discoveries in astronomy, and yet require for its perusal no greater preparation, than may be presumed of every well-educated English scholar of either sex. You were pleased to add the request, that I would write such a work, --a work which should combine, with a luminous exposition of the leading truths of the science, some account of the interesting historical facts with which it is.said the records of astronomical discovery abound. Having, moreover, heard much of the grand discoveries which, within the last fifty yea...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150009747
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 130
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150009748
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 245 gr


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