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DOVER Publishing and "Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy".
From: Michael Dorl
Date: 2003 Dec 29, 07:15 -0600
From: Michael Dorl
Date: 2003 Dec 29, 07:15 -0600
Sorry folks but I missed the previous discussion on this. I hunted through the Dover site but could find no reference to this reprint. Any hints would be much appreciated. Mike At 04:55 PM 12/27/03 -0800, you wrote: >On Wednesday, December 24, 2003, at 10:48 AM, Fred Hebard wrote: > >>The title of this book may be "Manual of Spherical and Practical >>Astronomy". > >Yes, it is that. The "A Manual of" part was not printed on the spine. > >My copy has a page following the title page but before the preface >which states that "the following pages [the entire book!] are printed >from the stereotype plates of the Appendix to the author's Manual of >Spherical and Practical Astronomy, without any change in the numbering >of the pages or of the tables." I am not quite sure what this means... > >I am glad to hear that there is a Dover reprint. It is a great book! > >Dan
