Présentation de l'éditeur
These Elementary Lessons in Astronomy are intended, in the main, to serve as a text-book for use inS chools, but I beheve they will be found useful to children of a larger growth, who wish to make themselves acquainted with the basis and teachings of one of the most fascinating of theS ciences. The arrangement adopted is new; but it is the result of much thought. I have been especially anxious in the descriptive portion to show theS uns real place in the Cosmos, and to separate the real from the apparent movements. I have therefore begun with theS tars, and have dealt with the apparent movements in a separate chapter. It may be urged that this treatment is objectionable, as it reduces the mental gymnastic to a minimum ;it is right, therefore, that I should state that my aim throughout the book has been to give a connected view of the whole subject rather than to discuss any particular parts of it; and to supply facts, and ideas founded on the facts, to serve as a basis for subsequent study and discussion. A companion volume to the present one I allude to the altogether admirable Popular Astronomy from the pen of the Astronomer Royal may, from this point of view, be looked upon as a sequel to two or three chanters in this book.
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