Front matter

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THE EARTH’S BEGINNING

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WORKS BY

SIR ROBERT S. BALL,

M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.

THE STORY OF THE HEAVENS.

With 24 Coloured Plates and Numerous Illustrations. New Edition. 10s. 6d.

THE EARTH’S BEGINNING.

With 4 Coloured Plates and Numerous Illustrations. New Edition. 7s. 6d.

THE STORY OF THE SUN.

With 11 Full Page Coloured and other Plates and Numerous Illustrations. 7s. 6d.

STAR-LAND.

Being Talks with Young People about the Wonders of the Heavens With Rembrandt Frontispiece and 94 Illustrations in Text. 7s. 6d.

CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited, London,

New York, Toronto & Melbourne.

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AN ENGLISH SUNSET TINGED BY KRAKATOA. (From a Drawing made at Chelsea at 4.40 p.m. on Nov. 26th, 1883, by Mr. W. Ascroft.)

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Earth’s Beginning

BY

SIR ROBERT S. BALL, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.

Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry in the University of Cambridge,

Author of “Star-Land,” “The Story of the Heavens,”

etc. etc.

WITH FOUR COLOURED PLATES AND

NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS

NEW EDITION

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED

LONDON, NEW YORK, TORONTO AND MELBOURNE

MCMIX

VIFirst Edition October 1901.

Reprinted December 1901, 1903.

Enlarged Edition 1909.

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