Astronomy with an Opera-glass / A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments

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Garrett Putman Serviss

TO THE READER

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I. THE STARS OF SPRING.

CHAPTER II. THE STARS OF SUMMER.

CHAPTER III. THE STARS OF AUTUMN.

CHAPTER IV. THE STARS OF WINTER.

CHAPTER V. THE MOON, THE PLANETS, AND THE SUN.

INDEX.

A POPULAR INTRODUCTION TO THE
STUDY OF THE STARRY HEAVENS WITH THE
SIMPLEST OF OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS

WITH MAPS AND DIRECTIONS TO FACILITATE THE RECOGNITION
OF THE CONSTELLATIONS AND THE PRINCIPAL STARS
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

BY

GARRETT P. SERVISS

"Known are their laws; in harmony unroll
The nineteen-orbed cycles of the Moon.
And all the signs through which Night whirls her car
From belted Orion back to Orion and his dauntless Hound,
And all Poseidon's, all high Zeus' stars
Bear on their beams true messages to man."
Poste's Aratus.

THIRD EDITION

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
London: Caxton House, Paternoster Square
1890

Copyright, 1888,
By D APPLETON AND COMPANY.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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