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Thanks, it is certainly an interesting read. Particularly so for the description of the discovery of the outer planets, the quantification of the speed of light and how they used the transit of Venus to find the distance to the Sun, which indirectly led to Captain Cook's detailed mapping of our eastern coastline. All of this was relatively recent history for the author.
The photographic illustrations must have been ground breaking at the time.
With the lapse of over a century, it still stands as a good work and that's not a bad testament to the author!
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