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A PERIOD when the love of astronomical study—long confined to a few select votaries, and dormant in general estimation—has attained an unprecedented and unlooked-for diffusion, is well suited for the appearance of such a historical view of the subject as may not only form a book of reference and comparison for the more advanced cultivator of the science, but may commend itself to the less instructed student, as well by the accuracy of its statements as by the perspicuity of its views and the simplicity of its expression. The work of which the earlier portion is now lying before us, seems, as far as can be foreseen, well calculated to answer this end, and Germany may be congratulated upon the commencement, at least, of what, ere long, ought to be made popularly accessible among ourselves. We possess, indeed, already, in the “History of Physical Astronomy,” by Prof. Grant, a work of the highest pretension as to accuracy and intelligence; but the subject is there regarded from a different point of view, and treated in a different manner, and there is abundant room for each of them.
Geschichte des Himmelskunde, nach ihrem gesammten Umfange
von Dr.J. H. von Mädler, Emeritirtem Professor und Director der Sternwarte, Dorpat. Band, i. ii. iii. Lieferungen. (Braunschweig, 1872. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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WEBB, T. Geschichte des Himmelskunde, nach ihrem gesammten Umfange . Nature 6, 58–59 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/006058a0
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