Length5h 23m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "If the pure and elevated pleasure to be derived from the possession and use of a good telescope of three, four, five, or six inches aperture were generally known, I am certain that no instrument of science would be more commonly found in the homes of intelligent people. The writer, when a boy, discovered unexpected powers in a pocket telescope not more than fourteen inches long when extended, and magnifying ten or twelve times. It became his dream, which was afterward realized, to possess a more powerful telescope, a real astronomical glass, with which he could see the beauties of the double stars, the craters of the moon, the spots on the sun, the belts and satellites of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, the extraordinary shapes of the nebulae, the crowds of stars in the Milky Way, and the great stellar clusters. And now he would do what he can to persuade others, who perhaps are not aware how near at hand it lies, to look for themselves into the wonder-world of the astronomers."
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Rating★★★★ 3.8 (40)
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GenreScience Fiction, Literary Classics
Length5 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
7CHAPTER VI
2CHAPTER I
8CHAPTER VII
3CHAPTER II
9CHAPTER VIII
4CHAPTER III
10CHAPTER IX
5CHAPTER IV
11CHAPTER X
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6CHAPTER V
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