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The Book of Stars: Being a Simple Explanation of the Stars and Their Uses to Boy LifeCollins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)

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The Book of Stars: Being a Simple Explanation of the Stars and Their Uses to Boy Life

Name: The Book of Stars: Being a Simple Explanation of the Stars and Their Uses to Boy Life
Author: Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)

Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)

Astronomy -- Juvenile literature; Stars -- Juvenile literature

—Cycle of seasons                                           75
—Lines of force through and around a magnet                 76
—Lines of force around the earth                            77
—Watch spring needle for compass                            77
—Compass complete                                           77
—Pocket watch-case compass                                  78
—Dial of mariners’ compass                                  78
—Needle for dipping needle                                  80
—Dipping needle complete                                    80
—Protractor showing degrees                                 81
—Earth surface divided into degrees                         81
—Protractor set by dipping needle showing latitude          82
—Two sticks screwed together                                83
—Two sticks across bucket of water                          83
—Protractor and sticks on drawing paper                     84
—Sextant in use. Shooting the sun                           85
—Shadows at the North Pole                                  87
—Moon and earth joined together like a dumbbell             89
—Balls connected with an elastic                            90
—Map showing Pacific Ocean                                  90
—Imitating the volcanoes in the moon                        91
—Real volcanoes                                             92
—Naked eye drawing of full moon                             93
—Experiment showing how one revolution of the moon
          round the earth makes it turn once round its axis          94
—Apple cut to show crescent                                 95
—Diagram showing how the moon’s phases are made             96
—Diagram of the moon’s phases as we see them                97
—Boy, lamp and orange showing phases of moon                99
—Attraction of the moon causes the tides                   100
—How spring tides are formed                               101
—How spring tides are formed                               101
—How neap tides are formed                                 102
—How neap tides are formed                                 103
—View of the earth from the moon                           104
—Telling time by the moon                                  105
—Eclipse of the moon by the earth (experiment)             107
—Moon eclipsed by the earth (diagram)                      108
—The moon as seen when in partial eclipse                  108
—Eclipse of the sun by the moon (experiment)               109
—The sun eclipsed by the moon (diagram)                    109
—Total eclipse of the sun, showing path of the sun         110

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The Book of Stars: Being a Simple Explanation of the Stars and Their Uses to Boy Life

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