A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy

Автор: George F. Chambers
Издательство: At the Clarendon Press
Страниц: 740
Год: 1889
Размер: 22,4 МБ

PT^HE remarks which appear in the Preface to the Third Edition (see post] apply almost word for word, so far as they go, to the Fourth Edition. Yet it is necessary for me to write an independent Preface in order to call attention to the altered circumstances under which this work is now presented to the reader. If the development of Astronomy between 1867 and 1877 was great, its development between 1877 and 1889 has been still greater. And besides this, there were important omissions in the ground-plan of the book which I have long been very desirous of making good, whenever time or opportunity became available.