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Popular astronomy

Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909 · 1878 · New York Harper & brothers · 3 pictures

Simon Newcomb's Popular astronomy, published by Harper & Brothers in New York in 1878, explains the science to general readers with engraved diagrams and tables. Pictures include ruled celestial spheres with hour and degree markings, a hatched armillary sphere, globe hemispheres shading transit visibility across continents, and ruled data tables of right ascension and declination.

Astronomy

Internet Archive · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library