8o. With 30 Illustrations. $2.50 net. By mail, $2.70
A companion volume to Star Lore of All Ages by the same author. It comprises a compilation of the myths, legends, and facts concerning the sun, of equal interest to the lay-reader or to the student.
The literature of the subject is teeming with interest, linked as it is with the life story of mankind from the cradle of the race to the present day, for the solar myth lies at the very foundation of all mythology, and as such must forever claim pre-eminence.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
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Beginner’s Star-Book
An Easy Guide to the Stars and to the
Astronomical Uses of the Opera-Glass, the
Field-Glass, and the Telescope
By Kelvin McKready
Square 8vo. Including 70 Illustrations.
$2.75 net. Postage Additional
This volume, peculiarly definite and helpful in method, is especially adapted to the practical needs of those who wish a well illustrated and clearly written handbook,—accurate in its scientific information and yet popular enough to meet the wishes of the average man or woman. The book is distinguished from other volumes on popular astronomy by a novel system of mapping, and by an unusually full discussion of the uses of the simpler astronomical instruments. Special care has been given to reproductions of recent astronomical photographs.
“Mr. McKready’s book is the finest thing for the beginner that I have ever seen. It is a pleasure to read a book so excellent in so many different ways. I have never seen photographs reproduced better. I have never seen maps of the heavens so intelligible to the beginner, and I have never read explanations so concise and yet so complete as in this book.”—Prof. S. A. Mitchell, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, New York City.