Excerpt from The World of Wonders: A Record of Things Wonderful in Nature, Science, and Art But if we confine ourselves to the wonders of this world, and do not soar to the three thousand worlds in the sky visible to the naked eye, nor to the fifty thousand stars that passed, says Sir William Her schel, f' over a field of view two degrees of breadth in a single hour, we shall have enough to do, and what we are about to endeavour we have, perhaps, sufficiently indicated to the reader. In all cases we shall give as far as possible the authorities on which our statements are based, though for the credibility of the facts related we cannot of course undertake to be responsible. The purely scientific wonders will be treated of by writers of eminence in their respective spheres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
