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Title: A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913
Subjects: Astronomy
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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SPIRAL NEBULA IN URSA MAJOR, KNOWN AS MESSIER 101 From a photograph taken at the Alt. Wilson Solar Observatory A BEGINNERS STAR-BOOK An Easy Guide to the Stars and to the Astronomical Uses of the Opera-Glass, the Field-Glass and the Telescope ByKELVIN McKREADY With Charts of the Moon, Tables of the Planets, and Star Maps on a New Plan Including Seventy Illustrations G. P. PUTNAMS SONSNEW YORK AND LONDON ZI b e 1l\ n i c h e r b 0 c I? e r press1912 \^M 1^ Copyright, igi2 BY G P. PUTNAMS SONS Second Impression Ubc ■tnfcftcrbocfter iprees, new J?orft .>■ / M. AND D. AND G.WHO HAVE WATCHED WITH ME AT THE THRESHOLD No unregarded star Contracts its lightInto so small a character, Removed far from our humane sight, But if we steadfast looke We shall discerneIn it, as in some holy booke How man may heavenly knowledge learne. William Habington, 1634. Some amateurs, I am told, believe that their efforts are rendered futile by the more power-ful equipment and better atmospheric advantage

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