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• Astronomy by David Peck Todd, noted American astronomer. He produced a complete set of photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus. Book contents: First Astronomers, Pyramid, Tomb, and Temple, Origin of Greek Astronomy, Ptolemy and His Great Book, Astronomy of the Middle Ages, Copernicus and the New Era, Tycho, the Great Observer, Kepler, the Great Calculator, Galileo, the Great Experimenter, Newton and Motion, Newton and Gravitation, Halley and His Comet, Bradley and Aberration, The Telescope etc…