Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Elementary Class Book on Astronomy: In Which Mathematical Demonstrations Are Omitted
By astronomical observations men can determine the posi tion of a ship on sea, and this branch of astronomy is called Nautical Astronomy, and thus geography and astronomy are combined, and no one can fully understand geography without some aid from astronomy.
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