ABSTRACT THE voyage in space which forms the subject of this book is not a romantic flight of the imagination, such as might have been written by Jules Verne, but an account of a journey by

telescope. In other words, it is an elementary book on astronomy, and is founded on a course of lectures to young people at the Royal Institution. Following the example of Faraday on a

similar occasion, the author has retained the language of the lecture room, and has thus been able to preserve the freshness of the original presentation. The reader is necessarily deprived

of witnessing the actual experiments, and of seeing many of the pictures exhibited by the lantern, but the descriptions are so vivid and the illustrations so numerous that he will readily

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