This CD contains the "new and enlarged edition" of Alex Keith Johnston’s 'School Atlas of Astronomy' published in 1877. This edition has 21 full colour
plates showing scientific details of various meteorological formations and events. From meteors to moon phases, eclipses of the sun and moon to maps of the stars. The text comprises, in a condensed form, an elementary survey of the heavens, in which each figure in the plates is popularly explained, and the
latest facts of the science are presented.
A beautiful and interesting work, it fulfils the author’s desire to offer:
... an exposition of facts and principles relating to the movements and
physical constitution of the celestial bodies, as might serve to render more
easily intelligible, and more interesting, the various representations
contained in the accompanying Atlas.
High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. This CD has been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
Click here to download a file of sample pages from this book
Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s.
Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.
