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| Title | Fourteen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy Fourteen weeks in all the sciences Steele's series in the natural sciences |
| Author | Joel Dorman Steele |
| Publisher | A.S. Barnes & Company, 1869 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | Apr 8, 2010 |
| Length | 338 pages |
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