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| Title | Elementary Lessons in Astronomy |
| Authors | Joseph Norman Lockyer, Sir Norman Lockyer |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1883 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 348 pages |
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