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IN this book there are three chapters, occupying sixty-three pages, and a series of thirteen “notes” which take up the remainder of the text. In chapter i. we find a very general, yet simple and instructive, description of the solar system, its probable origin, and the nature, appearance, dimensions, and distances of its various individual components. The explanations given are brief, but they are lucid, and the verbal illustrations are homely enough to appeal to the simplest minds. Chapter ii. deals with the apparent and real motions of the heavenly bodies, and here again the beginner should find no difficulty in grasping the fundamental ideas. Comets are discussed in chapter iii., which really consists of a description of Biela's famous comet and of the meteoritic genesis of these bodies.
A Popular Introduction to Astronomy.
By the Rev. Alex. C. Henderson. Pp. 114 (Lerwick: T. and J. Manson, 1905.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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R., W. A Popular Introduction to Astronomy . Nature 73, 149 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073149b0
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