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OUTLINES

Floren.
N.M.

OF

ASTRONOMY:

BY

SIR JOHN F. W. HERSCHEL, BART. K. H.

M.A. D.C.L. F.R.S.L. & E. HON. M.R.I.A. F.R.A.S. F.G.S. M.C.U.P.S.

Correspondent or Honorary Member of the Imperial, Royal, and National, Academies of Sciences
of Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Gottingen, Haarlem, Massachusetts (U.S.), Modena,
Naples, Paris, Petersburg, Stockholm, Turin, and Washington (U.S.);

the Italian and Helvetic Societies;

the Academies, Institutes, &c., of Albany (U.S.), Bologna, Catania, Dijon, Lausanne,
Nantes, Padua, Palermo, Rome, Venice, Utrecht, and Wilna;

the Philomathic Society of Paris; Asiatic Society of Bengal; South African Lit. and Phil. Society;
Literary and Historical Society of Quebec; Historical Society of New York;
Royal Medico-Chirurgical Soc., and Inst. of Civil Engineers, London;
Geographical Soc. of Berlin; Astronomical and
Meteorological Soc. of British Guiana;

&c. &c. &c.

WITH PLATES AND WOOD CUTS.

PHILADELPHIA:

LEA & BLANCHARD.

1849.