Smith's illustrated astronomy, designed for the use of the public or common schools in the United States
Subtitle: illustrated with numerous original diagrams
By: by Asa Smith, principal of public school no. 12, City of New York
Edition: Fourteenth Edition
Publisher: Daniel Burgess & Co., 60 John Street (Late Cady & Burgess)
Published: 1854
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Copyright date: 1848
Subjects: Astronomy; Pictorial works; Textbooks
Other titles: Smith's illustrated astronomy.
Notes: At head of title: "(Revised and Enlarged)".

Includes glossary.

On verso of title page: "Stereotyped by Vincent L. Dill, 128 Fulton St., New York" and "C.A. Alvord, printer".

On verso of title page: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by Asa Smith in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York."

Publisher's advertisement on back page of text.

Gift; Gift of Arlyn Booth; 2024
Table of contents: title: Vague ideas of the ancients respecting the shape of the Earth; title: Ptolemaic system; title: Introduction to astronomy; title: Astronomy, solar system, &c.; title: Diameters, magnitudes, distances and revolutions of the Sun and planets; title: Centripetal and centrifugal forces; title: Kepler's laws; title: Mean and true place of a planet - Aphelion and Perihelion; title: Mean and true motion of a planet; title: The Sun; spots on the Sun; title: Transits of Mercury and Venus; title: Zodiac; constellations of the zodiac; title: Apparent motion of the Sun in the heavens; title: Signs of the ecliptic, &c.; title: The planet Mercury; title: The planet Venus; title: Seasons at Venus, Phases, &c.; title: Earth, definitions, &c.; title: Earth and seasons, equinoxes, &c.; title: Aërolites, meteors, &c.; title: Mars, asteroids; title: Jupiter, Saturn's rings; title: The planet Saturn; title: The planet Herschel, or Uranus; title: The planet Leverrier, or Neptune; title: The moon; phases of the moon; title: The moon; physical constitution of the moon; title: Eclipses; title: Moon's nodes, inferor and superior conjunction; title: Inferior and superior planets; title: Greatest number of eclipses in a year; title: Tides; title: Orbits of the planets and comets; comets; title: Atmosphere; title: Refraction; title: Parallax; title: Light and heat; title: Terrestrial and celestial globes; title: General definitions respecting the globes; title: Fixed stars; distance to the nearest fixed star; title: Our own cluster, or firmament of stars, motions of the stars, multiple stars, binary systems; title: Nebulæ, number, distance, &c.; origin of the solar system; title: An explanation of leap year; title: Equation of time; title: To find the magnitudes of the planets; title: To find the distances of the planets from the Sun; title: Zodiacal light; title: To find the circumference of the Earth; title: Problems on the terrestrial globe; title: Problems on the celestial globe; title: Glossary or explanation of astronomical terms.