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Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies

by David Peck Todd

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Astronomy a Living Science
  3. 3Chapter II — The First Astronomers
  4. 4Chapter III — Pyramid, Tomb, and Temple
  5. 5Chapter IV — Origin of Greek Astronomy
  6. 6Chapter V — Measuring the Earth — Eratosthenes
  7. 7Chapter VI — Ptolemy and His Great Book
  8. 8Chapter VII — Astronomy of the Middle Ages
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Copernicus and the New Era
  10. 10Chapter IX — Tycho, the Great Observer
  11. 11Chapter X — Kepler, the Great Calculator
  12. 12Chapter XI — Galileo, the Great Experimenter
  13. 13Chapter XII — After the Great Masters
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Newton and Motion
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Newton and Gravitation
  16. 16Chapter XV — After Newton
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Halley and His Comet
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Bradley and Aberration
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — The Telescope
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Reflectors — Mirror Telescopes
  21. 21Chapter XX — The Story of the Spectroscope
  22. 22Chapter XXI — The Story of Astronomical Photography
  23. 23Chapter XXII — Mountain Observatories
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — The Program of a Great Observatory
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — Our Solar System
  26. 26Chapter XXV — The Sun and Observing It
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Sun Spots and Prominences
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — The Inner Planets
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — The Moon and Her Surface
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — Eclipses of the Moon
  31. 31Chapter XXX — Total Eclipses of the Sun
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — The Solar Corona
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — The Ruddy Planet
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — The Canals of Mars
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — Life in Other Worlds
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — The Little Planets
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI — The Giant Planet
  38. 38Chapter XXXVII — The Ringed Planet
  39. 39Chapter XXXVIII — The Farthest Planets
  40. 40Chapter XXXIX — The Trans-Neptunian Planet
  41. 41Chapter XL — Comets — The Hairy Stars
  42. 42Chapter XLI — Where Do Comets Come From?
  43. 43Chapter XLII — Meteors and Shooting Stars
  44. 44Chapter XLIII — Meteorites
  45. 45Chapter XLIV — The Universe of Stars
  46. 46Chapter XLV — Star Charts and Catalogues
  47. 47Chapter XLVI — The Sun’s Motion Toward Lyra
  48. 48Chapter XLVII — Stars and Their Spectral Type
  49. 49Chapter XLVIII — Star Distances
  50. 50Chapter XLIX — The Nearest Stars
  51. 51Chapter L — Actual Dimensions of the Stars
  52. 52Chapter LI — The Variable Stars
  53. 53Chapter LII — The Novæ, or New Stars
  54. 54Chapter LIII — The Double Stars
  55. 55Chapter LIV — The Star Clusters
  56. 56Chapter LV — Moving Clusters
  57. 57Chapter LVI — The Two Star Streams
  58. 58Chapter LVII — The Galaxy or Milky Way
  59. 59Chapter LVIII — Star Clouds and Nebulæ
  60. 60Chapter LIX — The Spiral Nebulæ
  61. 61Chapter LX — Cosmogony
  62. 62Chapter LXI — Cosmogony in Transition

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