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Excerpt from The Worlds of Space: A Series of Popular Articles on Astonomical Subjects
The following series of short popular articles on Astronomy and kindred subjects have been published in various magazines during the last three years, and deal chie?y with recent discoveries and advances in the science. My thanks are due to the Editors and Publishers of T/ze Parents' Review, T/ze Mani/lay Paeket, Tae [vewbery Home Magazine, Knowledge, T fie Gentleman's Magazine, Tne San, T fie Arts Mont/lily, and Indian Engineering, for permission to reprint them, and to Dr. Roberts for some of his beautiful photo graphs. I have also to thank Mr. Ranyard for permission to reproduce some of the photographs which have appeared in Knowledge. Chapters xxix., xxx. Xxxi., and xxxiii. Originally appeared in Indian Engineering, a weekly Journal published in Calcutta by Pat. Doyle, c.e., etc.
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