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Title: A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
Fourth Edition

Author: Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

Release Date: March 4, 2009 [eBook #28247]

Language: English

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A POPULAR HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

PROBLEMS IN ASTROPHYSICS.
Demy 8vo., cloth. Containing over 100
Illustrations. Price 20s. net.

THE SYSTEM OF THE STARS.
Second Edition. Thoroughly revised and
largely rewritten. Containing numerous
and new Illustrations. Demy 8vo., cloth.
Price 20s. net.

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[Illustration: THE GREAT NEBULA IN ORION, 1883

_See p. 408_]

A POPULAR HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

by

AGNES M. CLERKE

[Illustration: JUPITER 1879

SATURN 1885]

London
Adam and Charles Black
1908

First Edition, Post 8vo., published 1885
Second Edition, Post 8vo., published 1887
Third Edition, Demy 8vo., published 1893
Fourth Edition, Demy 8vo., published 1902
Fourth Edition, Post 8vo., reprinted February, 1908

PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION

Since the third edition of the present work issued from the press, the
nineteenth century has run its course and finished its record. A new era
has dawned, not by chron