Sir Robert Ball gave the Royal Institution’s Christmas lectures for children in 1881 and 1887, and this book grew from them. He talks his young audience through the Sun, the Moon, the inner planets, the giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, comets and shooting stars, and the stars themselves, with a closing chapter on naming the constellations.
A lively Victorian astronomy book for young readers, written by a gifted popular lecturer. Download the free EPUB.