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OF

ASTRONOMY:

BY

SIR JOHN F. W. HERSCHEL, BART. K.H.

M.A. D.C.L. F.R.S.L. & E. HON. M.R.I.A. F.R.A.S. F.G.S. M.C.U.P.S.

Correspondent or Honorary Member of the Imperial, Royal, and National, Academies of Science
of Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Gottingen, Haarlem, Massachusetts (U. §.), Modena,
Naples, Paris, Petersburg, Stockholm, Turin, Vienna, and Washington (U. S);
the Italian and Helvetic Societies;

the Academies, Institutes, &c., of Albany (U. S.), Bologna, Catania, D'jon, Lasanne,
Nantes, Padua, Palermo, Rome, Venice, Utrecht, and Wilta;

the Philomathic Society of Paris; Asiatic Society of Bengal; South African Lit. and Phil. Society;
Literary and Historical Society of Quebec; Historical Society of New York;

Royal Medico-Chirurgical Soc., and Inst. of Civil Engineers, I ondos
Geographical Soc. of Berlin; Astronomical and
Meteorological Soc. of British Guiana;
&c. &c. &c.

A NEW EDITION.

WITH NUMEROUS PLATES AND WOOD-CUTS.

NEW YORK:

SHELDON & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS,

498 & 500 BROADWAY.

Joseph S. Swann. Cambridge,

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