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THE LIFE OF ROGER LANGDON
TOLD BY HIMSELF
With Additions by his Daughter
Ellen
"PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMY"
[From "Whitaker's Almanack" for 1895, under the heading "Progress of Astronomy."]
PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
"WHY WAS I BORN?"
CHAPTER II
CHILDHOOD'S DAYS
CHAPTER III
STARTING IN LIFE
CHAPTER IV
MY SECRET DEPARTURE
CHAPTER V
LIFE IN JERSEY
CHAPTER VI
RETURN AND MARRIAGE
CHAPTER VII
SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS
[By Miss Ellen Langdon]
CHAPTER VIII
CLOSING YEARS
APPENDICES
APPENDIX I
A List of Parish Clerks of the Parish of Chisleborough, Copied from the Register
APPENDIX II
Observations of the Planet Venus, with a 6-inch silvered Glass Reflector. By R. Langdon
Communicated by J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S.
[From the "Monthly Notices" of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vols. 31-32, June, 1872]
APPENDIX III
Observations of the Planet Venus, with a 6-inch Silvered Glass Reflector. By R. Langdon
[From the "Monthly Notices" of the Royal Astronomical Society, June 1873. Vol. 33, Page 500.]
APPENDIX IV
A Letter from the Man in the Moon
(Left for the Editor at the Railway Station)
[Reprinted from the Exe Valley Magazine]
APPENDIX V
A Journey with Coggia's Comet
[Reprinted from Home Words]
APPENDIX VI
The Planet Venus
APPENDIX VII
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