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Stargazing: Past and Present

by Norman Lockyer

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Book I — The Pre-Telescopic Age — Chapter I — The Dawn of Stargazing
  3. 3Chapter II — The First Instruments
  4. 4Chapter III — Hipparchus and Ptolemy
  5. 5Chapter IV — Tycho Brahe
  6. 6Book II — The Telescope
  7. 7Chapter VI — The Refractor
  8. 8Chapter VII — The Reflection of Light
  9. 9Chapter VIII — The Reflector
  10. 10Chapter IX — Eyepieces
  11. 11Chapter X — Production of Lenses and Specula
  12. 12Chapter XI — The “Optick Tube”
  13. 13Chapter XII — The Modern Telescope
  14. 14Book III — Time and Space Measurers
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Circle Reading
  16. 16Chapter XV — The Micrometer
  17. 17Book IV — Modern Meridional Observations
  18. 18Chapter XVII — The Transit Clock and Chronograph
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — “Greenwich Time” and the Use Made of It
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Other Instruments Used in Astronomy of Precision
  21. 21Book V — The Equatorial
  22. 22Chapter XXI — The Adjustments of the Equatorial
  23. 23Chapter XXII — The Equatorial Observatory
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — The Siderostat
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — The Ordinary Work of the Equatorial
  26. 26Book VI — Astronomical Physics
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Determination of the Light and Heat of the Stars
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — The Chemistry of the Stars: Construction of the Spe…
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — The Chemistry of the Stars (Continued): Principles…
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — The Chemistry of the Stars (Continued): The Telespec…
  31. 31Chapter XXX — The Telepolariscope
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — Celestial Photography — The Ways and Means
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — Celestial Photography (Continued) — Some Results
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — Celestial Photography (Continued) — Recent Results

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