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Excerpt from The Orbs of Heaven: Or, the Planetary and Stellar Worlds; A Popular Exposition of the Great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy The hope was not groundless - subscriptions poured in, though not without difficulty - a large refractive telescope was purchased, and a piece of ground was generously given by a private individual for the site of an observatory. The work was pushed rapidly forward. In February, 1845, the great telescope safely reached the city of Cincinnati; and in March the building was ready for its reception. 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.