Macpherson opens with William Herschel, the musician from Hanover who discovered Uranus and with his sister Caroline began the modern study of the heavens. He then surveys a hundred years of discovery about the sun, moon, inner and outer planets, comets such as the great comet of 1811, meteors, the stars and the analysis of their light.
A compact, readable history of nineteenth-century astronomy, written in 1906 when its author was still a teenager. Download the free EPUB.