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Pleasures of the telescope

Name: Pleasures of the telescope
Author: Garrett Putman Serviss

by Garrett Putman Serviss

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Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by V. L. Simpson, Nigel Blower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2009-05-10

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Telescopes Astronomy -- Observers' manuals Astronomy -- Amateurs' manuals

About the author

Garrett Putman Serviss

1851–1929

A newspaper science writer turned astronomy popularizer, he helped everyday readers imagine the planets, comets, and the wider universe at a time when modern space science was still taking shape. He is also remembered for early science fiction that blended scientific curiosity with adventurous storytelling.

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