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LEADER: 01220cam 22002291 4500
001 31010532
003 DLC
005 20050504183639.0
008 791022s1872 nyud 000 0 eng
010 $a 31010532
035 $a(OCoLC)5573137
040 $aDLC$cOCl$dDLC
042 $apremarc
050 00 $aQB51$b.P98 1872
082 $a523
100 1 $aProctor, Richard A.$q(Richard Anthony),$d1837-1888.
245 14 $aThe orbs around us:$ba series of familiar essays on the moon and planets, meteors and comets, the sun and coloured pairs of suns.$cBy Richard A. Proctor.
260 $aLondon,$bLongmans, Green and co.;$aNew York,$bScribner, Welford and Armstrong,$c1872.
300 $avii, [2], 340 p.$bfront. (chart)$c21 cm.
505 0 $aIntroduction: The gamut of light.--Other habitable worlds.--Other inhabited worlds.--The Rosse telescope set to new work.--The planet of love.--The planet of war.--A minature sun.--Shooting stars, meteors, and aerolites.--Meteors and meteor systems.--Professor Tyndall's theory of comets.--Comets and comet's tails.--The sun's corona.--What, then, is the corona ?--The corona as a phenomenon of eruption.--Colours of the double stars.
651 0 $aSolar system.
650 0 $aAstronomy.