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General Astronomy by Harold Spencer Jones

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General Astronomy
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Publisher: Edward Arnold and Company
ISBN/ASIN: 0217219276
Number of pages: 392

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The book will serve to give the reader a sufficiently complete view of the present state of Astronomy. Mathematics has been almost entirely excluded in order that the volume may appeal to the amateur, no less than the student.

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