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Excerpt from Practical and Spherical Astronomy: For the Use Chiefly of Students in the Universities The want of a text-book on Astronomy adapted to the requirements of our Universities, and embodying the practice and the theories of the present time, has long been severely felt. It was hoped that the author's partial translation of Brunnow's Spherical Astronomy would have helped materially to supply this want, or would at least have given to College and private tutors an excellent model which they might have used, with proper modifications as the basis of their lectures. Whether this has been the case or not the author has had no opportunity of determining, but, on the urgent representations of several scientific friends, that a book was still wanting which should embody the methods of modern Astronomy as practised in England, and be put into a shape fit for the immediate use of students of the Universities, he has been induced to undertake the treatise which is now offered to the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.