History of Astronomy
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110
1909
English
- Preface
- I Early Notions
- II The Eastern Nations of Antiquity
- III The Greeks
- IV The Arabs
- V The Revival - Copernicus - Tycho Brahe
- VI Kepler - Galileo
- VII Newton
- VIII Newton's Successors: Laplace
- IX Flamsteed - Halley - Bradley - Herschel
- X The Early Nineteenth Century - Neptune
- XI Herschel - Bessel - Struve
- XII Comets
- XIII The Sun - Eclipses - Parallax
- XIV General Astronomy and Celestial Mechanics
- XV Observatories and Instruments
- XVI Adjustment of Observations - Personal Errors
- XVII The Sun
- XVIII Solar Spectroscopy
- XIX Solar Eclipses - Spectroscopy
- XX The Moon
- XXI The Earth
- XXII The Interior Planets
- XXIII Mars
- XXIV Minor Planets
- XXV The Major Planets
- XXVI The Solar System
- XXVII Comets, Meteors, Zodiacal Light
- XXVIII The Stars - Catalogues - Proper Motion - Parallax - Magnitude
- XXIX Double Stars
- XXX Variable Stars
- XXXI Clusters - Nebulae - Milky Way
- XXXII Stellar Spectroscopy
- XXXIII Conclusion
In this book, Walter W. Bryant traces the history of astronomy through the ages. We start at the very beginning, where astronomy was an occupation of priests, move with the help of the Arabs through the middle ages to the (re-) discovery of the heliocentric system by Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo. A discussion of Newton and his laws follows as well as a description of the biographies and works of successors like Halley, Herschel, and Bessel. The second half of the book deals with (at the time) recent discoveries with respect to our solar system and the comets, meteors, and stars beyond. (Summary by Ava)
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