Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Visible Universe: Chapters on the Origin and Construction of the Heavens
The latest results respecting the distribution of stars and nebulae, their relative motions, and the physical constitution of the heavenly bodies, will be given; and it is hoped that the work will prove of interest to the general reader as well as to the student of astronomy.
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