Dear bibliophiles,
If you were hunting through old books at a garage sale, church fête or similar, which (say five) antique or historical astronomy book titles would you love to find? For the purposes of this little daydream, let's keep it to something that you could reasonably expect to find, so we'll not include titles by the likes of Copernicus, Kepler or Galileo.
Historical astronomy books
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Hawkeye
, Nov 19 2004 01:43 AM
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Dan Luna
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Posted 19 November 2004 - 04:47 AM
When referring to Moon literature, "antique or historical" might as well include books into the 1990s for all the chance you have of finding one. 
In the case of genuine antiques, I wouldn't mind coming across a copy of Edmund Neison's "The Moon and the Condition and Configuration of its Surface" (1876), as there's no way I'm paying $750 for one off the Web.
In the case of genuine antiques, I wouldn't mind coming across a copy of Edmund Neison's "The Moon and the Condition and Configuration of its Surface" (1876), as there's no way I'm paying $750 for one off the Web.
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ArizonaScott
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Posted 19 November 2004 - 10:36 AM
"Mars" and "Mars As The Abode Of Life" by Percival Lowell. I visit Flagstaff and Lowell Observatory pretty often, so these books would hit close to home 
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