Letters on Astronomy

Name: Letters on Astronomy
Author: Denison Olmsted

by Denison Olmsted

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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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Project Gutenberg

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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.

Subjects

Astronomy

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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