Garrett P. Serviss, America’s beloved astronomy writer, chose for Curiosities of the Sky the phenomena that genuinely puzzled the astronomers of his day: the ‘windows of absolute night’ where stars vanish, star-clouds and clusters, new stars that flare and fade, the zodiacal light and the question of other inhabited worlds.
His gift was making the reader feel the abyss without vertigo. Download the free EPUB for the night sky’s mysteries as they stood on the eve of modern astrophysics.