Astronomy
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The Moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satelliteThe Moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite.The reason for this books appearance may be set forth in a few words. A long course of reflective scrutiny of the lunar surface with the aid of telescopes of considerable power, and a...
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The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the UniverseThe Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the UniverseThis work is not presented to the reader as a treatise on astronomy, although the different phenomena pertaining to that splendid science are reviewed with some detail, and the established facts bearing upon the subjects...
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The Study of Astronomy, adapted to the capacities of youthThe Study of Astronomy, adapted to the capacities of youth - In twelve familiar dialogues, between a tutor and his pupil: explaining the general phænomena of the heavenly bodies, the theory of the tides, &c.It has long been a matter of surprize to those...
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Voyager 1 Encounters SaturnVoyager 1 Encounters SaturnNo other generation has had the opportunity or the technology to reach beyond our worldto see, to touch, to hear the forces that shape our universe. In slightly over two decades, man has ingeniously explored five distant planetsand two dozen moons....
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Flowers of the SkyFlowers of the SkyWe live in a mighty ocean whose waves are ever rushing hither and thither, always according to law, with velocity inconceivable, almost immeasurable. These waves lave the shore of that island of space which is our home, travelling to it from...
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Voyager Encounters JupiterVoyager Encounters JupiterIn March 1979 Voyager 1 swept past Jupiter, photographing both the giant planet and five of its moons. Four months later, a companion spacecraft, Voyager 2, made a similar encounter. Now, with Jupiter receding behind them, both spacecraft are headed toward the...
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Pioneer Saturn EncounterPioneer Saturn EncounterWe have entered into a new era of space exploration. Missions undertaken during the lunar exploration of the 1960s typically lasted a matter of days with commands issued and carried out in near real time. Now, a decade later, planetary voyages may...
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One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a GlobeOne Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a GlobeParallax, the Founder of the Zetetic Philosophy, is dead; and it now becomes the duty of those, especially, who knew him personally and who labored with him in the cause of Truth against Error, to...
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Stories of StarlandStories of Starland This book has been a labor of love from the beginning to the end, and I have thoroughly enjoyed conversing with my little friends Harry and Nellie. Now that the book is finished, I leave it with regret. It is impossible...
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Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural PhilosophyPreliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural PhilosophyIn primis, hominis est propria VERI inquisitio atque investigatio. Itaque cum sumus negotiis necessariis, curisque vacui, tum avemus aliquid videre, audire, ac dicere, cognitionemque rerum, aut occultarum aut admirabilium, ad ben beatque vivendum necessariam ducimus;ex quo intelligitur,...
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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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