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IN the mid-Victorian era there were no more popular books on astronomy than those of Richard Anthony Proctor, the centenary of whose birth falls on March 23. Possessing a remarkable power of lucid exposition and almost unbounded energy, in his comparatively short life he published about sixty
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Richard Anthony Proctor (1837–1888). Nature 139, 498 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139498b0
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