May 24th 1915 death of G.F. Chambers
George
Frederick Chambers died on May 24th 1915, he was born in
1841. Chambers was a barrister and astronomer. He became very well
known due to the number of books on astronomy that he wrote. His
first book was ‘A Handbook of Descriptive and practical Astronomy’.
His
most popular books were a series of introductions to astronomy. The
Story of the Solar System, The Story the Star, The Story of Eclipses,
and The Story of Comets. He also produced a revised version of ‘A
Cycle of Celestial Objects’ that was originally written by Admiral
W H Smyth.
In
1865 he purchased a 4 inch telescope from Thomas Cooke of York
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