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THROUGH THE TELESCOPE




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The 40-inch Refractor of the Yerkes Observatory.]




  THROUGH
  THE TELESCOPE

  BY

  JAMES BAIKIE, F.R.A.S.

  WITH 32 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
  AND 26 SMALLER FIGURES IN THE TEXT

  [Illustration]

  LONDON
  ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
  1906




TO

C. N. B. AND H. E. B.




PREFACE


The main object of the following chapters is to give a brief and
simple description of the most important and interesting facts
concerning the heavenly bodies, and to suggest to the general reader
how much of the ground thus covered lies open to his personal survey
on very easy conditions. Many people who are more or less interested
in astronomy are deterred from making practical acquaintance with the
wonders of the heavens by the idea that these are only disclosed to
the possessors of large and costly instruments. In reality there is
probably no science which offers to