The Story of the HeavensCambridge University Press, 26 ago 2010 - 608 páginas An Irish astronomer and talented mathematician, Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913) was also a prolific writer of popular astronomy. As a young man, Ball conducted observations of nebulae using Lord Rosse's telescope - at the time the largest in the world. His Story of the Heavens displays the same fascination with the beauties and mysteries of the sky, providing a detailed survey of the history and contemporary situation of the solar system, and speculating about the possibility of life on other planets. Originally published in 1885, when Ball was Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin and Royal Astronomer of Ireland, this beautifully illustrated volume covers all eight planets, the Sun, as well as double stars, distant suns, comets, and the Milky Way. Extremely popular in its time, this book remains relevant today for its historical account of astronomy as a science. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Early Astronomical ObservationsThe Observatory of Tycho BraheThe | 9 |
CHAPTER II | 26 |
9 | 27 |
CHAPTER III | 49 |
VI | 60 |
CHAPTER IV | 81 |
CHAPTER V | 96 |
XII | 296 |
CHAPTER XVII | 330 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 369 |
CHAPTER XIX | 388 |
CHAPTER XX | 399 |
CHAPTER XXI | 407 |
A New Department of ScienceThe Materials of the Heavenly Bodies | 440 |
XIII | 450 |
CHAPTER VI | 123 |
CHAPTER VIII | 139 |
The Earth is a great GlobeHow the Size of the Earth is MeasuredThe | 163 |
CHAPTER X | 180 |
THE MINOR PLANETS | 196 |
CHAPTER XII | 211 |
CHAPTER XIII | 232 |
CHAPTER XIV | 257 |
CHAPTER XV | 275 |
CHAPTER XVI | 296 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 452 |
The Great Nehula in Andromeda | 467 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 472 |
CHAPTER XXV | 482 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 492 |
CHAPTER XXVII | 510 |
Astronomical Quantities | 539 |
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