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Title: Astronomy for Amateurs

Author: Camille Flammarion

Translator: Frances A. Welby

Release Date: April 30, 2008 [EBook #25267]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Paul Renaud.

CONTEMPLATION]

ASTRONOMY FOR
AMATEURS

BY
CAMILLE FLAMMARION
AUTHOR OF POPULAR ASTRONOMY

_AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION BY_
FRANCES A. WELBY

_ILLUSTRATED_

[Illustration]

NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1910

COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

_Published October, 1904_

TO

MADAME C.R. CAVARE

ORIGINAL MEMBER OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE
CHATEAU DE MAUPERTHUIS

MADAME: I have dedicated none of my works, save Stella--offered to the
liberal-minded, the free and generous friend of progress, and patron of
the sciences, James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald. In
this volume, Madame, I make another exception, and ask your permission
to offer it to the first woman who consented to be enrolled in the list
of members of the Astronomical Society of France, as foundress of this
splendid work, from the very beginning of our vast association (1887);
and who also desired to take part in the permanent organization of the
Observatory at Juvisy, a task of private enterprise, emancipated from
administrative routine. An Astronomy for Women[1] can not be better
placed than upon the table of a lady whose erudition is equal to her
virtues, and who has consecrated her long career to the pursuit and
service of the Beautiful, the Good, and the True.

CAMILLE FLAMMARION.

OBSERVATORY OF JUVISY, _November, 1903_.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

INTRODUCTION 1

I. THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE HEAVENS 10

II. THE CONSTELLATIONS