From: The Dial, Vol. I, No. III (Jan. 1841)
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Published: Weeks Jordan and Company 1841 Boston
Architecture of the Heavens. By Professor Nichol. Edinburgh. 1839.
This work gives the result of the last observations of the Herschels, and a general view of the universe, as at present appreciated by astronomical science. It is full of facts, new to the public, and in its general effect magnificent as a poem. It is a series of letters to a lady, written in a very agreeable style, perhaps sometimes a little too fine, and yet the mood into which the reader is put by it, explains the inevitable exaltation of the author, in his solitude among the stars.
The Solar System. By the same author.
The Structure of the Earth. Also by the same author.
We wonder that some of our publishers do not republish these remarkable works. It is most desirable that they should also be illustrated like the Edinburgh editions; and could not these same illustrations be imported for the American editions?
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