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Astronomy for students and general readers

Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909, Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914, joint author · 1880 · New York : H. Holt and company · 102 pictures

A general astronomy textbook by Simon Newcomb with Edward S. Holden, published in New York by Henry Holt in 1880 for college students and lay readers. Its figures are white-line geometric diagrams printed as negatives on solid black grounds: celestial spheres with lettered meridians, orbital and parallax constructions, and star-marked circles usable as ready-made dark-field graphics.

Astronomy

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