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Excerpt from Other Worlds Than Ours: The Plurality of Worlds Studied Under the Light of Recent Scientific Researches Wherever it has been in accordance with the custom of any journal, however, I have always writ ten under my own name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books ...

Excerpt from Familiar Science Studies The essays in the present volume are taken chie¿y from the Times, Scribner's Magazine, the Gentleman's Magazine, Belgravia, the Contemporary Review, and the Corn/till. I have little to say of them that I have not already said of other essays of mine which have been republished in book form. My Object in writing them has been to give clear and simple but also correct accounts of scientific matters likely t...

Excerpt from The Borderland of Science: A Series of Familiar Dissertations on Stars, Planets, and Meteors, Sun and Moon, Gambling, Earthquakes, Flying-Machines, Coal, Coincidence, Ghosts, Etc Many readers of knowledge, in which Weekly Paper an effort has been made to bring scientific news and discoveries before the public in a cheap and trustworthy form, have asked me whether I could not publish cheaper editions of some of my own books. In th...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Excerpt from A New Star Atlas for the Library, the School and the Observatory The constellation boundaries are somewhat darker than I would have had them if I had not had to con sid er the requirements of beginners. It seems to me very necessary that the extent of each constellation should be recognisable at a glance (at least by most of those who will use these maps). Indeed, if no other means would suffice for this, the spaces should be col...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Excerpt from Knowledge, Vol. 21: An Illustrated Magazine of Science, Literature and Art, January to December, 1898Sport, The Encyclopedia Oi. By the Eail of Suffolk and Berkshire, Hedley Peek, and F. G. Afialo.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolog...

Excerpt from Knowledge, Vol. 25: An Illustrated Magazine of Science Literature and Art, January to December, 1902 Constellation Studies - No. XII. The Great 7' Hunter and his Dogs H 3 By miss A. -i. Clerle mummy damn 3 Telempe Nobodies, The, - A Sea~faring Family XI Owing and Evening sws By Rev. B. R. Screams 37. 73, 137, XII. The March of the Planets XIII. A Modern Tycho 102 Notes XIV Sunspots and Moonspots Astronomical 14, 36, 62, 85, 111, ...

Excerpt from Easy Star Lessons The lesson taught by these maps, and capable of being thus readily tested in travel, is that, as we travel north wards the horizon line which at any given hour bounds the northern heavens sinks lower and lower, that is, farther and farther from the north pole of the heavens, revealing more and more stars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more a...

Excerpt from Knowledge, Vol. 8: An Illustrated Magazine of Science Plainly Worded Exactly Described, July to October, 1885 The electricity necessary for the gilding is derived, in some cases, from the well-known Daniell battery, and in other from dynamo-electric machines. There is little doubt that the great amount of attention recently bestowed on dynamos for the purpose of electro-deposi tion will speedily result in.the exclusive use of tho...

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Excerpt from Light Science for Leisure Hours: Third Series, Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects, Natural Phenomena, &C, IN -this volume of Essays I have included a series of papers relating to the great Solar Eclipses which have been successfully observed since the year 1868, - papers written at the time, and describing the anticipations formed as each eclipse approached, and the results actually obtained during the progress of the eclips...

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Excerpt from Sun Views of the Earth, or the Seasons Illustrated: Comprising Forty-Eight Views of the Earth as Supposed to Be Seen for the Sun at Differents Hours and Seasons, With Five Enlarged Sun-Views of England and a Diagram Representing the Earth's Daily Motion in the Orbit This work is intended as an illustration of several important astronomical relations, * and especially to supply the place of the meagre and incorrect pictures which ...

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