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MANY books have been published on descriptive astronomy for general readers, ranging from simple stories intended to interest children in the starry heavens to surveys of celestial fact and theory requiring the intelligent attention of mature minds to comprehend them. All such works tend to remove the heavens farther and farther from the earth, though to early peoples these were complementary parts of a living universe. The quaint figures which, in ancient times, marked the positions and forms of the zodiacal and other constellations have disappeared from celestial globes and maps, and the goddess Urania has lost her place among the other muses.
One Day Telleth Another
By Stephen A. Ionides Margaret L. Ionides. Pp. xii + 324 + 31 plates. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1939.) 10s. 6d. net.
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GREGORY, R. One Day Telleth Another. Nature 144, 1028–1029 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441028a0
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