ASTRONOMY FOR
AMATEURS
BY
CAMILLE FLAMMARION
AUTHOR OF POPULAR ASTRONOMY
AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION BY
FRANCES A. WELBY
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1910
Copyright, 1904, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Published October, 1904
TO
Madame C.R. CAVARÉ
ORIGINAL MEMBER OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE
CHÂTEAU DE MAUPERTHUIS
Madame: I have dedicated none of my works, save Stella—offered to theliberal-minded, the free and generous friend of progress, and patron ofthe sciences, James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald. Inthis volume, Madame, I make another exception, and ask your permissionto offer it to the first woman who consented to be enrolled in the listof members of the Astronomical Society of France, as foundress of thissplendid work, from the very beginning of our vast association (1887);and who also desired to take part in the permanent organization of theObservatory at Juvisy, a task of private enterprise, emancipated fromadministrative routine. An Astronomy for Women[1] can not be betterplaced than upon the table of a lady whose erudition is equal to hervirtues, and who has consecrated her long career to the pursuit andservice of the Beautiful, the Good, and the True.
Camille Flammarion.
Observatory of Juvisy, November, 1903.