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Excerpt from Mathematical Geography: With a Supplement Containing an Outline of Astronomy, and a Manual for the Stellar Tellurian, Designed for Common Schools The contents may be summed up briey as follows The Earth's Form; (2) Its Size; (3) Its Division by Circles; (4) Its Motions and their Results; (5) Its Relations to other Heavenly Bodies, particularly the Sun and Moon. It will be seen that more ground is covered in this department than in ordinary geographies. In fact, all that part of astronomical science into which the earth enters as a prominent element, is assumed to belong legitimately to the subject; although great care has been taken not to introduce into the body of the book any topic which may not, by simple language and familiar illustration, be easily understood by those for whom the book is designed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.