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The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or norhtern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c (1837)

Bradford, Duncan. [from old catalog] · Boston, American stationers company · leaf 225

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but is confirmed by measures with the micrometer,which assign one hundred and seven to one hun-dred as the proportion of the equatorial to the WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS 177 polar diameters.* And, to confirm in the strongestmanner the truth of those principles on which formerconclusions were founded,…

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