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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 178 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 77 23 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 75 3 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 27 1 Browse Search
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 21 1 Browse Search
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 20 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 19 3 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 18 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 14 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 11 3 Browse Search
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e limits of the sheet on the board according to the scale of reduction required. A telemeter rod or chain is used in connection with it. Plan-et-a′ri-um. A machine for exhibiting the relative motions of the planets and their positions in respect to the sun and one another, sometimes rather absurdly called an orrery. A planetarium made by Graham, the renowned mechanician and watchmaker, came into the possession of the Earl of Orrery and obtained celebrity. It received its name from Steele, who wrote a description of it. The first recorded planetarium was made by Archimedes, about 200 B. C. It must have been constructed after the geocentric system, which then obtained, — the earth in the center, and so on. A planetarium constructed at Florence in the fifteenth century is described in a letter from Angelo Politiano to his friend Francesca Casa. It illustrated the Ptolemaic system, the received theory of the time. Planetariums. The planetarium of Huyghens, preserve