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PROFESSOR LANGLEY'S beautiful book does not appeal merely to the intellect. The senses have their share in the gratification its perusal affords. Every turning of a page is a conscious luxury. Each touch of the paper, in which the thickness of vellum is combined with the polish of satin, flatters the finger-tips with a bland caress. In texture, it compares with the paper on which ordinary work-a-day scientific treatises are printed as does a velvet-pile with a Kidderminster carpet. The binding is in a corresponding style of lavish magnificence. The illustrations have obtained the last perfection of finish.
The New Astronomy.
By Samuel Pierpoint Langley Illustrated. (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1888.)
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CLERKE, A. Langley's New Astronomy . Nature 38, 291–292 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038291a0
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