Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 42245-h.htm or 42245-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42245/42245-h/42245-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42245/42245-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/thunderlightning00flamuoft THUNDER AND LIGHTNING * * * * * Medium 8vo, cloth extra, 10_s._ 6_d._ FLAMMARION'S POPULAR ASTRONOMY Translated from the French by J. ELLARD GORE, F.R.A.S. With 3 Plates and 288 Illustrations. "The six books into which the book is divided give a very lucid and accurate description of the knowledge which has been acquired of the moving bodies of space, both as respects their motions and physical constitutions. Of the translation we can only speak in terms of praise. Not only does it well represent the original, but Mr. Gore has added useful notes for the purpose of bringing the information up to date, and has also increased the number--already very considerable--of the excellent illustrations, so that the work is likely to become as popular in England as it has been in France."--ATHENÆUM. "The work which Mr. J. E. Gore has translated into English has made for itself a name and reputation in France ... and has gone into general circulation to the number of a hundred thousand copies. This last fact is proof how well within the bounds of possibility it is to make the latest discoveries of science comprehensible and fascinating to the common mind. M. Flammarion has attained this triumph through the grasp of his knowledge, the lucidity of his style, and his power of bringing home the most stupendous and complicated of the things revealed to us in the depths of space. M. Flammarion's pages should find almost as great acceptance in this country as in his own. Simplicity of arrangement and of statement are part of his charm and of his success."--SCOTSMAN. "M. Flammarion's latest volume, if it does not displace its English rivals, may well take a high place in the rank to which they belong. It is full, lucid, and, thanks to Mr. Gore's careful revision, well up to date.... Mr. Gore's edition is so carefully brought abreast of the latest discoveries that the English student may now congratulate himself on being in an even better position than the countrymen of M. Flammarion."--DAILY CHRONICLE.