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The evolution of worlds

Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · 1909 · New York, The Macmillan company · 59 pictures

The Evolution of Worlds is a 1909 astronomy book by Percival Lowell, published in New York by Macmillan, written for a general readership on cosmogony. Its plates are photographs of planets, spectra and nebulae, and a designer might take their dark fields, soft glowing discs and banded light strips as material for space-themed backgrounds and night imagery.

Cosmogony

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