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Excerpt from Smith's Illustrated Astronomy: Designed for the Use of the Public or Common Schools in the United States; Illustrated With Numerous Original Diagrams To the teachers, of our common country, this work is most respectfully dedicated, in the sincere desire that the cause of education may be benefited, and the labors of instruction in Astronomy may be rendered more easy and pleasant, from the illustrations it contains. Asa smith, Former Principal of Public School, No. 12, Seventeenth Street, near Eighth Avenue, City of New York. Names and Characters of the Signs of the Zodiac. Aspect of the plane'i's. 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.