The Moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite.

Name: The Moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite.
Author: James Nasmyth

by James Nasmyth, James Carpenter

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Eric Hutton, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2018-01-04

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Public domain in the USA.

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Moon

About the authors

James Nasmyth

1808–1890

Best known for inventing the steam hammer, this Scottish engineer helped shape the machinery of the Industrial Revolution. He was also a gifted draftsman and later turned his curiosity to astronomy, writing about his observations of the Moon.

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James Carpenter

1840–1899

A British astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, he helped shape 19th-century lunar science and co-wrote a richly illustrated classic about the Moon with engineer James Nasmyth. His career blended careful observation, early spectroscopic work, and a lasting gift for explaining astronomy to curious readers.

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