The geography of the heavens, and class-book of astronomy:
A school astronomy text by Elijah H. Burritt, revised by Hiram Mattison and issued in New York by Mason Brothers in 1858 for classroom use with an accompanying star atlas. The wood-engraved figures are lettered optical and celestial diagrams \u2014 rays through concave and convex lenses, horizon domes with hatched ground, arcs of the sky with radiating sight lines \u2014 usable as line-based schematic ornament.
