Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies
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ASTRONOMY
DAVID TODD
PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I ASTRONOMY A LIVING SCIENCE
CHAPTER II THE FIRST ASTRONOMERS
CHAPTER III PYRAMID, TOMB, AND TEMPLE
CHAPTER IV ORIGIN OF GREEK ASTRONOMY
CHAPTER V MEASURING THE EARTH—ERATOSTHENES
CHAPTER VI PTOLEMY AND HIS GREAT BOOK
CHAPTER VII ASTRONOMY OF THE MIDDLE AGES
CHAPTER VIII COPERNICUS AND THE NEW ERA
CHAPTER IX TYCHO, THE GREAT OBSERVER
CHAPTER X KEPLER, THE GREAT CALCULATOR
CHAPTER XI GALILEO, THE GREAT EXPERIMENTER
CHAPTER XII AFTER THE GREAT MASTERS
CHAPTER XIII NEWTON AND MOTION
CHAPTER XIV NEWTON AND GRAVITATION
CHAPTER XV AFTER NEWTON
CHAPTER XVI HALLEY AND HIS COMET
CHAPTER XVII BRADLEY AND ABERRATION
CHAPTER XVIII THE TELESCOPE
CHAPTER XIX REFLECTORS—MIRROR TELESCOPES
CHAPTER XX THE STORY OF THE SPECTROSCOPE
CHAPTER XXI THE STORY OF ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHY
CHAPTER XXII MOUNTAIN OBSERVATORIES
CHAPTER XXIII THE PROGRAM OF A GREAT OBSERVATORY
CHAPTER XXIV OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
CHAPTER XXV THE SUN AND OBSERVING IT
CHAPTER XXVI SUN SPOTS AND PROMINENCES
CHAPTER XXVII THE INNER PLANETS
VULCAN
MERCURY
VENUS
CHAPTER XXVIII THE MOON AND HER SURFACE
CHAPTER XXIX ECLIPSES OF THE MOON
CHAPTER XXX TOTAL ECLIPSES OF THE SUN
CHAPTER XXXI THE SOLAR CORONA
CHAPTER XXXII THE RUDDY PLANET
CHAPTER XXXIII THE CANALS OF MARS
CHAPTER XXXIV LIFE IN OTHER WORLDS
CHAPTER XXXV THE LITTLE PLANETS
CHAPTER XXXVI THE GIANT PLANET
CHAPTER XXXVII THE RINGED PLANET
CHAPTER XXXVIII THE FARTHEST PLANETS
NEPTUNE
CHAPTER XXXIX THE TRANS-NEPTUNIAN PLANET
CHAPTER XL COMETS—THE HAIRY STARS
CHAPTER XLI WHERE DO COMETS COME FROM?
CHAPTER XLII METEORS AND SHOOTING STARS
RADIANT POINT
CHAPTER XLIII METEORITES
CHAPTER XLIV THE UNIVERSE OF STARS
CHAPTER XLV STAR CHARTS AND CATALOGUES
CHAPTER XLVI THE SUN'S MOTION TOWARD LYRA
CHAPTER XLVII STARS AND THEIR SPECTRAL TYPE
CHAPTER XLVIII STAR DISTANCES
CHAPTER XLIX THE NEAREST STARS
CHAPTER L ACTUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE STARS
CHAPTER LI THE VARIABLE STARS
CHAPTER LII THE NOVÆ, OR NEW STARS
CHAPTER LIII THE DOUBLE STARS
CHAPTER LIV THE STAR CLUSTERS
CHAPTER LV MOVING CLUSTERS
CHAPTER LVI THE TWO STAR STREAMS
CHAPTER LVII THE GALAXY OR MILKY WAY
CHAPTER LVIII
STAR CLOUDS AND NEBULÆ
CHAPTER LIX
THE SPIRAL NEBULÆ
CHAPTER LX COSMOGONY
CHAPTER LXI COSMOGONY IN TRANSITION
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