Author: BALL, ROBERT.
Title: The Story of the Sun. With Eleven Full-page Plates and numrerous Illustrations. Fifth Thousand.
Description: Cheap Edition; 8vo; pp. (xii), 392; colour illustrated frontispiece, 11 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations throughout, index; original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt to spine and front board, minor scuffing to boards, corners bent inwards and slightly chipped, 140mm x 104mm sticker to front paste-down endpaper, some foxing to endpapers, spine bumped, page edges browned, a good copy. Melbourne, Cassell and Company Limited, (1897).

Keywords: Solar System sun Venus velocity of light mass eclipses solar astronomy physics transit outer space universe