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Title: Pleasures of the telescope
An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular
Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General
Readers

Author: Garrett Serviss

Release Date: May 10, 2009 [EBook #28752]

Language: English

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PLEASURES OF THE
TELESCOPE

AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS
AND A POPULAR DESCRIPTION OF THE CHIEF
WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS FOR
GENERAL READERS

BY
GARRETT P. SERVISS

AUTHOR OF ASTRONOMY WITH AN OPERA-GLASS

"This being made, He yearned for worlds to make
From other chaos out beyond our night--
For to create is still God's prime delight.
The large moon, all alone, sailed her dark lake,
And the first tides were moving to her might;
Then Darkness trembled, and began to quake
Big with the birth of stars, and when He spake
A million worlds leapt into radiant light."

LLOYD MIFFLIN.

_WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS_

NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1901

COPYRIGHT, 1901,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

PREFACE

By the introduction of a complete series of star maps, drawn specially
for the use of the amateur and distributed through the body of the work,
thus facilitating consultation, it is believed that this book makes a
step in advance of its predecessors. The maps show all of the stars
visible to the naked eye in the regions of sky represented, and, in
addition, some stars that can only be seen with optical aid. The latter
have been placed in the maps as guide posts in the telescopic field to
assist those who are searching for faint and inconspicuous objects
referred to in