The story of the peasant-boy philosopher, or, "A child gathering pebbles on the sea-shore"
Subtitle: (founded on the early life of Ferguson, the shepherd-boy astronomer, and intended to show how a poor lad became acquainted with the principles of natural science)
By: by Henry Mayhew
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, publishers
Published: 1866
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Astronomers; Juvenile fiction; Science; Experiments; Constellations
Other titles: Story of the peasant-boy philosopher; Child gathering pebbles on the sea-shore
Notes: Includes a map of constellation.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.