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History of Astronomy

by George Forbes

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Book I | The Geometrical Period
  3. 32 — Ancient Astronomy — The Chinese and Chaldæans
  4. 43 — Ancient Greek Astronomy
  5. 54 — The Reign of Epicycles — From Ptolemy to Copernicus
  6. 6Book II | The Dynamical Period
  7. 76 — Galileo and the Telescope — Notions of Gravity by Horrocks, etc.
  8. 87 — Sir Isaac Newton — Law of Universal Gravitation
  9. 98 — Newton’s Successors — Halley, Euler, Lagrange, Laplace, etc.
  10. 109 — Discovery of New Planets — Herschel, Piazzi, Adams, and le Verrier
  11. 11Book III | Observation
  12. 1211 — History of the Telescope
  13. 13Book IV — The Physical Period
  14. 1412 — The Sun
  15. 1513 — The Moon and Planets
  16. 1614 — Comets and Meteors
  17. 1715 — The Fixed Stars and Nebulæ

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