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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A Text-Book of General Astronomy: For Colleges and Scientific SchoolsThe present work is designed as a text-book of Astronomy suited to the general course in our colleges and Schools of science, and is meant to supply that amount of information upon the subject which may fairly be expected of every liberally educated person. W'hile it assumes the previous discipline and mental maturity usually corresponding to the latter years Of'...

Excerpt from The Elements of Astronomy: A Text Book for Use in High Schools and Academies, With an UranographyWhile, therefore, the author has tried to treat every subject simply and clearly, he has not undertaken to make it milk for babes, but rather to stimulate thought, to discourage narrow and one-sided ways of looking at things, and to awaken the desire for further acquisition. The book presupposes pupils willing to learn, and an instruct...

Excerpt from Manual of Astronomy a Text-BookThe material of the new book has naturally been derived largely from its predecessors, but everything has been care fully worked over, rearranged and rewritten where necessary.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...

Excerpt from God's Glory in the HeavensThou visitest him' This the student of astronomy learns to say with a profounder and more intelligent humility than any other person can.And, on the other hand, he too, I think, is likely to recognize more fully than other men the high dignity of our human nature, made in the image of God and partaking of the divine, able in amost real sense to comprehend the whole material universe, to share the thoughts...

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Excerpt from A Text-Book of General Astronomy: For Colleges and Scientific SchoolsThe present work is designed as a text-book of Astronomy suited to the general course in our colleges and Schools of science, and is meant to supply that amount of information upon the subject which may fairly be expected of every liberally educated person. W'hile it assumes the previous discipline and mental maturity usually corresponding to the latter years Of'...

Excerpt from Manual of Astronomy a Text-BookThe material of the new book has naturally been derived largely from its predecessors, but everything has been care fully worked over, rearranged and rewritten where necessary.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...

Excerpt from Lessons in Astronomy, Including Uranography a Brief Introductory Course Without Mathematics It has been thought well also to add brief notes on the legendary mythology of the constellations for the benefit of such pupils as are not likely to become familiar with it in the study of classical literature. In the preparation of the book great pains have been taken not to sacrifice accuracy and truth to compactness, and no less to br...

The Souls of W. E. B. Du Bois explores the relationship of W. E. B. Du Bois's seminal book, The Souls of Black Folk, to other works in his scholarly portfolio and to his larger project concerning race, racial identity, and the social objectives of scholarly engagement.The new, original chapters in this book, written by leading Du Bois scholars, offer a critical reading of Souls and its relevance a century later in today's world. The chapters s...

Excerpt from The Elements of Astronomy: A Text Book for Use in High Schools and Academies, With an Uranography Special attention has been paid to making all statements correct and accurate as far as they 90. Many of them are necessarily incomplete, 011 account of the elementary char acter of the work, but it is hoped that this incomplete ness has never been allowed to degenerate into untruth, and that the pupil will not afterwards have to unl...

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