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Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · 1851 · New York, Huntington and Savage, Mason and Law · 100 pictures

A school astronomy textbook by Hiram Mattison, published in New York in 1851 for beginning American pupils. The wood-engraved figures are circular diagrams: globes ruled with meridian grids and tiny standing figures, zodiac bands of stars and signs, orbit paths in dotted line, and hatched spheres labelled with distances in miles.

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