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Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers

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Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers

by Denison Olmsted

EN·~13 hours·37 chapters

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37 total

By DENISON OLMSTED, LL.D.,

0:36

ADVERTISEMENT - TO THE - REVISED EDITION.

3:25

LETTERS ON ASTRONOMY. - LETTER I. - INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS.

15:39

LETTER II. - DOCTRINE OF THE SPHERE.

24:41

LETTER III. - ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS.——TELESCOPE.

13:50

LETTER IV - TELESCOPE CONTINUED.

12:44

LETTER V. - OBSERVATORIES.

27:36

LETTER VI. - TIME AND THE CALENDAR.

22:06

LETTER VII. - FIGURE OF THE EARTH.

22:08

LETTER VIII. - DIURNAL REVOLUTIONS.

15:00

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Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers

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~13 hours (804K characters)

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Produced by David Starner, Mark Young and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2012-07-15

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40240

Subjects

Astronomy QB

About the author

Denison Olmsted

1791–1859

Best remembered for helping turn meteor watching into a real science, this 19th-century American scholar studied the spectacular 1833 Leonid storm and wrote widely on astronomy, physics, and natural philosophy. He also spent much of his career teaching at Yale, where his textbooks reached generations of students.

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