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AN

ASTRONOMICAL CATECHISM;

OR,

DIALOGUES

BETWEEN

A MOTHER AND HER DAUGHTER.

ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.

BY CATHERINE VALE WHITWELL.

To be had

LONDON:

only at

PRINTED FOR S. AND J. FULLER, 34, RATHBONE PLACE,

By J-Mallett,-59, Wardour Street, Sohor

Solihull

1823.

Chapter.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART THE FIRST.

I. Introduction

II. The Rise and Progress of Astro-

nomy

III. The same Subject continued.

IV. The Uses of Astronomy

V. The Sun

VI. The Figure, and Motion of the

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1

PART THE SECOND.

5

22

Earth

53

VII. The Moon

60

68

VIII. The Sun, the barth, and the boon

IX. The Planets, and their Satellites. 103

X. Comets

124

XI. Conclusion

135

46

XII. The starry Heavens

143

XIII. The Method of finding the Stars . 155