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Elementary lessons in astronomy

Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920 · 1889 · London : Macmillan and Co. · 71 pictures

A school astronomy textbook by Norman Lockyer, published by Macmillan in London in 1889 for students beginning the subject. Its wood-engraved figures are lettered geometric diagrams of orbits, spheres and sight-lines, plus white-line drawings reversed out of dense black grounds; useful for circle-and-ellipse constructions, hatched sectors, and star shapes on night-sky fields.

Astronomy · Solar system

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