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THIS “sketch of the most interesting circumstances connected with the observation of solar and lunar eclipses, both in ancient and modern time,” appears at a very appropriate time, since in a little more than two months the general public will be mildly interested in a total eclipse of the sun, for the observation of which in Norway, Japan, and elsewhere, many astronomers are making preparations. Mr. Lynn has contrived to compress a marvellous amount of very readable information in his slender little volume, and as a condensed statement of the history of eclipse observations his essay is admirable. The book is uniform with “Remarkable Comets,” and it deserves the same successful career as its forerunner.
Remarkable Eclipses.
By W. T. Lynn. Pp. 52. (London: Edward Stanford, 1896.)
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Remarkable Eclipses. Nature 54, 76 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054076b0
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