Astronomy
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The Practical AstronomerThe Practical Astronomer - Comprising illustrations of light and colours--practical descriptions of all kinds of telescopes--the use of the equatorial-transit--circular, and other astronomical instruments, a particular account of the Earl of Rosse's large telescopes, and other topics connected with astronomyThe following work was announced...
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Through the TelescopeThrough the TelescopeThe main object of the following chapters is to give a brief and simple description of the most important and interesting facts concerning the heavenly bodies, and to suggest to the general reader how much of the ground thus covered lies open...
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Symmes's Theory of Concentric SpheresSymmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres - Demonstrating that the Earth is hollow, habitable within, and widely open about the polesThe author of the following pages does not write because he is a learned man; he is conscious of the reverse; and that his merits...
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The TelescopeThe TelescopeThis book is written for the many observers, who use telescopes for study or pleasure and desire more information about their construction and properties. Not being a handbook in two or more thick quartos, it attempts neither exhaustive technicalities nor popular descriptions of...
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On the Construction of a Silvered Glass TelescopeOn the Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope - Fifteen and a half inches in aperture, and its use in celestial photographyThe text of this book has been preserved in its original form apart from correction of two typographic errors: embarrasment embarrassment, Cassegranian Cassegrainian....
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New Edition of Hints on Silver-Glass Reflecting Telescopes Manufactured by Mr. G. Calver, F.R.A.SNew Edition of Hints on Silver-Glass Reflecting Telescopes Manufactured by Mr. G. Calver, F.R.A.S. - with Directions for Silvering, Adjusting, &c. Of the various forms of Telescopes now in use, each has its own peculiar advantages; but the Silvered-Glass Reflector is undoubtedly gaining favour...
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Practical Talks by an AstronomerPractical Talks by an AstronomerThe present volume has not been designed as a systematic treatise on astronomy. There are many excellent books of that kind, suitable for serious students as well as the general reader; but they are necessarily somewhat dry and unattractive, because...
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Stargazing: Past and PresentStargazing: Past and PresentIn the year 1870 I gave a course of eight Lectures on Instrumental Astronomy at the Royal Institution. The Lectures were taken down by a shorthand writer, my intention being to publish them immediately. In this, however, I was prevented by...
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Jorden och solsystemetJorden och solsystemet - Några blad ur historien om vetenskapens striderHvar och en, som blifvit delaktig af undervisningens frsta grunder i vr tid, knner till och tror mot sina sinnens omedelbara vitnesbrd, att den jord, han lefver p, r ett stort, fast klot, som...
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Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline HerschelMemoir and Correspondence of Caroline HerschelFamiliar to all as is the name this volume bears, it is not without hesitation that the following pages are given to the world. To subject the memorials of a deeply earnest life to the eyes of a generation...
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Space Nomads: Meteorites in Sky, Field, and LaboratorySpace Nomads: Meteorites in Sky, Field, and LaboratoryMeteoritics is the study of the only tangible entities that reach us from outer space. Except for the meteorites, scientists have to depend entirely on studies of some form of radiation for all their knowledge of the...
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Die MilchstrasseDie MilchstraßeDie Gesellschaft Kosmos will die Kenntnis der Naturwissenschaften und damit die Freude an der Natur und das Verstndnis ihrer Erscheinungen in den weitesten Kreisen unseres Volkes verbreiten. Dieses Ziel glaubt die Gesellschaft durch Verbreitung guter naturwissenschaftlicher Literatur zu erreichen mittels des Ferner sind...
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Biography of Percival LowellBiography of Percival LowellIf genius is the capacity for taking infinite pains, Percival Lowell possessed it abundantly from his study of Esoteric Shinto, in his earlier life in Japan, to his great calculation of the position and orbit of an unknown planet beyond Neptune,...
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The Ways of the PlanetsThe Ways of the PlanetsIn this digital version a black dotted underline indicates a hyperlink to a page or footnote (hyperlinks are also highlighted when the mouse pointer hovers over them). Page numbers are shown in the right margin and footnotes are at the...
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Stellar Evolution and Its Relations to Geological TimeStellar Evolution and Its Relations to Geological TimeThere are two, and only two, conceivable sources from which the prodigious amount of energy possessed by our sun and solar system can possibly have been derived. Not only are these two sources radically distinct in their...
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The Witness of the StarsThe Witness of the StarsFor more than two thousand five hundred years the world was without a written revelation from God. The question is, Did God leave Himself without a witness? The question is answered very positively by the written Word that He did...
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The Science of the StarsThe Science of the Stars I. ASTRONOMY BEFORE HISTORY II. ASTRONOMY BEFORE THE TELESCOPE III. THE LAW OF GRAVITATION IV. ASTRONOMICAL MEASUREMENTS V. THE MEMBERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM VI. THE SYSTEM OF THE STARS INDEX The plan of the present series requires each...
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The Story of the Solar SystemThe Story of the Solar SystemHaving in my Story of the Stars told of far distant suns, many of them probably with planets revolving around them, I have in the present volume, which is a companion to the former one, to treat of the...
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Mars and Its CanalsMars and Its CanalsEleven years have elapsed since the writers first work on Mars was published in which were recorded the facts gleaned in his research up to that time and in which was set forth a theory of their explanation. Continued work in...
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The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo GalileiThe Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei - and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical DiscoveriesKepler remarks on the importance of the application of the telescope to astronomical investigations as indicated by Galileos discoveries, published in...
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