The romance of modern astronomy, describing in simple but exact language the wonders of the heavens
A popular astronomy book by Hector Macpherson, published in London by Seeley in 1927 to explain the heavens to general readers without mathematics. Its plates run to line diagrams of orbital geometry and phase sequences—shaded discs showing a planet's illumination at inferior conjunction and elongation—alongside blank text leaves, giving designers ready-made crescent and gibbous roundels, labelled arcs, and dotted orbit paths.
