James Muirden (born 1942) is a British astronomer and author of more than thirty books. He has formerly been a film reviewer and telescope maker.^[1][2] Muirden is a member of theBritish Astronomical Association.^[3] He lives inDevon, England.^[1][2]

• Astronomy with Binoculars (Faber, 1963)^[4]
• Amateur Astronomer's Handbook (Crowell, 1968)^[3][5]
• Beginner's Guide to Astronomical Telescope Making (Transatlantic Arts, 1976)^[6]
• Observational Astronomy for Amateurs (Enslow Publishers, 1982)^[5][7]
• Observer's Guide to Halley's Comet (Arco Pub, 1985)^[8]
• A Rhyming History of Britain (Walker and Company, 2003)^[9][10]
• The Cosmic Verses: A Rhyming History of the Universe (Walker and Company, 2007)^[11]

• 1942 births
• Living people
• 20th-century British astronomers
• 20th-century British non-fiction writers
• 21st-century British non-fiction writers

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