Excerpt from Researches in Stellar Parallax by the Aid of Photography: From Observations Made at the Oxford University Observatory Besides the important and costly gifts to the Observatory referred to above, Mr. James Nasmyth has deposited therein his remarkable pictorial map of the Moon, and his other cartoons of the Lunar surface (seven in number), and these beautiful works of 'art now adorn the walls of the Lecture-room. 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.