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    [Illustration: GASSENDI.
    Nov. 7. 1867 10 P.M.]




                               THE MOON:
                             CONSIDERED AS
                  A PLANET, A WORLD, and A SATELLITE.


                                   BY
                          JAMES NASMYTH, C.E.
                                  AND
                       JAMES CARPENTER, F.R.A.S.
               LATE OF THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH.


 WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIVE PLATES OF LUNAR OBJECTS, PHENOMENA, AND
                    SCENERY; NUMEROUS WOODCUTS, &c.

                                LONDON:
                     JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
                                 1874.

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