Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics, Science

Authors: David Todd In Year : 1922

Book Language: English

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Preface
Astronomy a Living Science
The First Astronomers
Pyramid, Tomb, and Temple
Origin of Greek Astronomy
Measuring the Earth—Eratosthenes
Ptolemy and His Great Book
Astronomy of the Middle Ages
Copernicus and the New Era
Tycho, the Great Observer
Kepler, the Great Calculator
Galileo, the Great Experimenter
After the Great Masters
Newton and Motion
Newton and Gravitation
After Newton
Halley and His Comet
Bradley and Aberration
The Telescope
Reflectors—Mirror Telescopes
The Story of the Spectroscope
The Story of Astronomical Photography
Mountain Observatories
The Program of a Great Observatory
Our Solar System
The Sun and Observing It
Sun Spots and Prominences
The Inner Planets
The Moon and Her Surface
Eclipses of the Moon
Total Eclipses of the Sun
The Solar Corona
The Ruddy Planet
The Canals of Mars
Life in Other Worlds
The Little Planets
The Giant Planet
The Ringed Planet
The Farthest Planets
The Trans-Neptunian Planet
Comets—the Hairy Stars
Where Do Comets Come From?
Meteors and Shooting Stars
Meteorites
The Universe of Stars
Star Charts and Catalogues
The Sun's Motion Toward Lyra
Stars and Their Spectral Type
Star Distances
The Nearest Stars
Actual Dimensions of the Stars
The Variable Stars
The Novæ, or New Stars
The Double Stars
The Star Clusters
Moving Clusters
The Two Star Streams
The Galaxy or Milky Way
Star Clouds and Nebulæ
The Spiral Nebulæ
Cosmogony
Cosmogony in Transition

The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from uniform—rather by leaps and bounds: from the earliest epoch when man's planet earth was the center about which the stupendous cosmos wheeled, for whom it was created, and for whose edification it was maintained—down to the modern age whose discoveries have ascertained that even our stellar universe, the vast region of the solar domain, is but one of the thousands of island universes that tenant the inconceivable immensities of space. So rapid, indeed, has been the progress of astronomy in very recent years that the present is especially favorable for setting forth its salient features; and this book is an attempt to present the wide range of astronomy in readable fashion, as if a story with a definite plot, from its origin with the shepherds of ancient Chaldea down to present-day ascertainment of the actual scale of the universe, and definite measures of the huge volume of supersolar giants among the stars. (Preface) - Summary by David Todd