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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
FIGURE PAGE Yerkes Observatory | 7 |
Apparent Places of Stars on the Celestial Sphere | 9 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Astronomy: A Revision of Young's Manual of Astronomy ..., Volume 1 Astronomy: A Revision of Young's Manual of Astronomy, Henry Norris Russell |
| Authors | Henry Norris Russell, Raymond Smith Dugan, John Quincy Stewart |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Ginn, 1926 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Oct 23, 2007 |
| Length | 962 pages |
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