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Excerpt from The New Astronomy It is not generally understood that among us not only the support of the Government, but with scarcely an exception every new private benefaction, is devoted to the Old As L tronomy, which is relatively munificently endowed already; while that which I have here called the New, so fruitful in results of interest and importance, struggles almost unaided. 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.