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CONTENTS.--A Dream that was not all a Dream.--The Sun.--The Queen
of Night.--The Evening Star.--The Ruddy Planet.--Life in the Ruddy
Planet.--The Prince of Planets.--Jupiter's Family of Moons.--The
Ring-Girdled Planet.--Newton and the Law of the Universe.--The
Discovery of Two Giant Planets.--The Lost Comet.--Visitants from
the Star Depths.--Whence come the Comets?--The Comet Families of
the Giant Planets.--The Earth's Journey through Showers.--How the
Planets Grew.--Our Daily Light.--The Flight of Light.--A Cluster of
Suns.--Worlds ruled by Colored Suns.--The King of Suns.--Four
Orders of Suns.--The Depths of Space.--Charting the Star
Depths.--The Star Depths Astir with Life.--The Drifting Stars.--The
Milky Way.
_THE MOON: Her Motions, Aspect, Scenery, and Physical Conditions._ With
Three Lunar Photographs, Map, and Many Plates, Charts, etc. 12mo. Cloth,
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CONTENTS.--The Moon's Distance, Size, and Mass.--The Moon's
Motions.--The Moon's Changes of Aspect, Rotation, Libration,
etc.--Study of the Moon's Surface.--Lunar Celestial
Phenomena.--Condition of the Moon's Surface.--Index to the Map of
the Moon.
_LIGHT SCIENCE FOR LEISURE HOURS._ A Series of Familiar Essays on
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