Description | Letter from Pearse regarding a Persian book on natural history titled 'Wonders of the Creation', focusing particularly on a section relating to Persian knowledge of the sun, the moon, Mars, and Saturn. He compares Western knowledge and terminology of these topics to those discussed in the Persian book. He then discusses three astronomical predictions made in the book. Marginalia and corrections appear in ink throughout. A figure appears on the third to last page.
Subject: Astronomy |