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Mechanism of the Heavens

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Also known as: “Preliminary Dissertation to the Mechanism of the Heavens”

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…the book excellent and recommended Mechanism of the Heavens (1831) to another publisher. Mechanism of the Heavens’s introduction, in which Somerville summarized the current state of astronomical knowledge for the general reader, was published separately in 1832 as Preliminary Dissertation to the Mechanism of the Heavens. Mechanism of the Heavens…
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