Curiosities of the Sky: The Strangest Things in the Heavens
Garrett P. Serviss
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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What the night sky held before photography settled it: the dark nebulae, the vanished stars, the rings and the double suns. Serviss lectured to packed halls with a lantern and a telescope and wrote astronomy for people who had never had it explained without mathematics. This edition binds 49 plates of painting with the text, among them Munch, Friedrich and Church, alongside 23 illustrations restored and coloured.
What the night sky held before photography settled it: the dark nebulae, the vanished stars, the rings and the double suns. Serviss lectured to packed halls with a lantern and a telescope and wrote astronomy for people who had never had it explained without mathematics. This edition binds 49 plat...
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Garrett P. Serviss (1851-1929) was an American astronomer and popular writer born in Sharon Springs, New York. A newspaperman who left journalism to lecture on astronomy with the Urania scientific entertainments, he wrote both popular science and early science fiction. His works include Curiosities of the Sky, Astronomy with an Opera-Glass, and Edison's Conquest of Mars.
Garrett P. Serviss (1851-1929) was an American astronomer and popular writer born in Sharon Springs, New York. A newspaperman who left journalism to lecture on astronomy with the Urania scientific entertainments, he wrote both popular science and early science fiction. His works include Curiositi...
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