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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

—Total eclipse of the sun, from photo                      111
—Annular eclipse of the sun                                111
—Partial eclipse of the sun                                111
—Comet showing Nucleus, Coma and tail                      113
—An ellipse, parabola and hyperbola                        113
—Head and tail of comet do not obey the same laws          114
—Halley’s comet, from photo                                115
—Meteorite of iron etched with acid                        116
—The Milky Way                                             117
—Different forms of nebulæ                                 119
—Ripples or waves on water                                 124
—Vibration of a bell                                       125
—Sound waves in the air set up by bell                     126
—Waves in the ether                                        127
—Forming an image with a lens                              128
—The human eye                                             128
—Light reflected by an apple                               132
—Light reflected. Spoon in glass of water                  132
—How light is reflected                                    133
—Prism                                                     133
—Prism forming a spectrum                                  134
—Convex lens                                               134
—Concave lens                                              135
—Lipperhey’s boy discovers telescope                       137
—Disk of cardboard for pinhole telescope                   138
—Cross section of pinhole telescope                        138
—The telescope (Galileo)                                   139
—Opera glasses                                             140
—Pasteboard mounting of lens                               140
—Pasteboard lens mounting                                  141
—Opera glass telescope. Cross section                      141
—Telescope. Cross section view                             142
—Magnifying power of telescope                             143
—Full view of moon                                         145
—Glass globe cracked                                       146
—Map of the moon                                           147
—The moon girl                                             147
—Diagram showing how to find solar noon                    153
—Circle divided into 360 degrees and 24 hours              157
—The earth divided into 24 standard meridians              158
—Standard time meridians in U. S.                          159
—Standard time at different cities                         161

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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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