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en
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Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Brenda Lewis, Scott Marusak, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2008-09-08
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Public domain in the USA.
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1837–1888
A gifted popularizer of astronomy, he helped bring the stars and planets within reach of ordinary readers through lively books, lectures, and magazine writing. Best known in the 19th century for explaining complex ideas clearly, he turned scientific subjects into something curious and approachable.
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