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Fun with Astronomy Mae Blacker Freeman, Ira Freeman

Softcover in Good Condition. Price sticker on front cover.

The wide Skies above

If you have ever wondered about the sky and everything you can see in it, then you have already discovered the excitement of Astronomy - for that is really what is meant by this rather forbidding world. In this book you will read about the sun and it's planets, about comets, meteors and the stars; about those things that you can see, others that are only visible through powerful telescopes, and yet others which nobody on earth has seen.
From this book you can learn how men measure the size of the sun, why the moon seems to change its shape, why the earth is colder in winter than in summer. And you can test these facts by yourself by the easy experiments with ordinary objects like candles, modelling clay, and rubber balls, which are described inside. Later on, with the aid of the simple charts, you will be able to find and recognize some of the important planets, stars and constellations for yourself.
There are plenty of helpful photographs, and the explanation of each experiment tells you exactly what to do and the results mean. from the earth we go, by the way of the moon, the sun and the planets, to the stars themselves, in the depths of our strange and wonderful universe. This is real "space travel" of the most exciting kind!