Asa Smith, Circles and Ellipses

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Asa Smith (Artist And Editor)Smith’s Illustrated AstronomyCircles and EllipsesGeo. C. Rand & Avery, Boston, C.A. Alvord, et al. (printers)Vincent L. Dill, New York (stereotyper)Cha se & Nichols, Boston: 1848Daniel Burgess & Co., 60 John Street, New York: 1852Samuel F. Nichols, Boston: 1860 & 1866Hand-colored woodblock printsSheet size: 11 x 9 in. Frame size: 18 1/2 x 16 3/4 in.Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy was the most popular American pictorial astronomy guide of the 19th century, with numerous diagrams demonstrating or showing principles of planetary motion and features, other astronomical phenomena, the moon, and the constellations. Show more