A Field Book of the Stars
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- Under 100
- First published
- 1907
- Pages
- 193
About this book
A Field Book of the Stars is by William Tyler Olcott, with fifty diagrams, and is meant to facilitate and popularize, if possible, this fascinating recreation of star-gazing. The introduction remarks that, considering the ease with which a knowledge of the constellations can be acquired, it seems a remarkable fact that so few are conversant with these time-honored configurations of the heavens. The contents say the great square of Pegasus is located by a line drawn from Polaris to Cassiopeia and prolonged.
Taurus is listed as containing the celebrated and unmistakable group, The Pleiades, to be seen almost overhead in the early evening during the Winter months. Monoceros, the Unicorn, is to be found east of Orion between Canis Major and Canis Minor. The text adds that the region around the stars 8, 13, 17 is particularly rich when viewed with an opera-glass.
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Book facts
- Author
- William Tyler Olcott
- First published
- 1907
- Reading time
- About 100 minutes
- Pages
- 193
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Popular Science
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online