Download or read book A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy, Vol. 1 written by George Frederick Chambers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy, Vol. 1: The Sun, Planets, and Comets The last edition having reached to nearly 1000 pages it became quite clear that the now necessary additions would have swelled the work to a bulk and consequent price which probably the Public would not have regarded with favour. Accordingly when its division into two volumes became a necessity, I deter mined to make the two into three, and to complete the under taking as originally conceived twenty-nine years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.