Download or read book A Century s Progress in Astronomy Classic Reprint written by Hector Macpherson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Century's Progress in Astronomy The present volume originated in a desire to present, in small compass, a record of the mar vellons progress in astronomy during the past hundred years. Indebtedness should be acknow ledged to the valuable works of Professor New comb, Professor Schiaparelli, Professor Lowell, Professor Young, Sir Robert Ball, Mr Gore, M. Flammarion, and Miss Clerke, who, as the historian of modern astronomy, occupies a place at once authoritative and unique. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book A Century s Progress in Astronomy written by Hector MacPherson and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book A Popular History of Astronomy written by Agnes M. Clerke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Popular History of Astronomy: During the Nineteenth Century The progress of astronomy during the last hundred years has been rapid and extraordinary. In its distinctive features, moreover, the nature of that progress has been such as to lend itself with facility to untechnical treatment. To this circumstance the present volume owes its origin. It embodies an attempt to enable the ordinary reader to follow, with intelligent interest, the course of modern astronomical inquiries, and to realize (so far as it can at present be realized) the full effect of the comprehensive change in the whole aspect, purposes, and methods of celestial science introduced by the momentous discovery of spectrum analysis. Since Professor Grant's invaluable work on the History of Physical Astronomy was published, a third of a century has elapsed. During the interval a so-called new astronomy has grown up by the side of the old. One effect of its advent has been to render the science of the heavenly bodies more popular, both in its needs and in its nature, than formerly. More popular in its needs, since its progress now primarily depends upon the interest in, and consequent efforts towards its advancement of the general public; more popular in its nature, because the kind of knowledge it now chiefly tends to accumulate is more easily intelligible - less remote from ordinary experience - than that evolved by the aid of the calculus from materials collected by the use of the transit-instrument and chrono graph. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book An Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Astronomy Classic Reprint written by John Narrien and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Astronomy To a treatise on astronomy founded on either of the two prin ciples above mentioned the followmg Work will, it is hoped, serve as a convenient introduction; it may be considered as holding an intermediate place with respect to the voluminous histories of M.M. Bailly and Delambre and, be it said, while acknowledging the merits of such as the elegant essay of Dr. Adam Smith, or that recently published in the Library of Use ful Knowledge, the very general outlines which have, occasion ally, been given of the origin and progress of the science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book History of Physical Astronomy from the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the 19th Century Classic Reprint written by Robert Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Physical Astronomy, From the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the 19th Century But mere Observation cannot constitute science. Facts, however care fully recorded, must be subsequently scrutinized, compared, and classified, before any general conclusions can be derived from them, relative to the arrangements of the material universe. The astronomers of Asia, al though patient observers, do not appear to have in any age aspired to this more exalted occupation of the mind. The Greeks first reduced the knowledge relative to the celestial motions into a systematic form. This Object was not, however, effected during the early period of Grecian his tory. The Chaldeans, by confining their attention to the mere occurrence Of phenomena, were unable to arrive at general views of the celestial motions; the philosophers of the Grecian schools, on the other hand, long wasted their transcendent talents in groundless speculations, which were equally ineffectual in producing any permanent influence on the progress of Astronomy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Twentieth Century Atlas of Popular Astronomy written by Thomas Heath and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Twentieth Century Atlas of Popular Astronomy: Comprising in Sisteen Plates a Series of Illustrations of the Heavenly Bodies HE progress of Astronomy during the nineteenth century has T exhibited itself in two distinct forms, the march of scientific discovery and the increasing interest shown in the science by. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Studies in Astronomy written by Arthur K. Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Astronomy: Being a Lecture on the Science, Elaborated With Numerous Additions for General Readers; Embracing Its Sublimity, History, Progress, Wonders and UtilityThe subject to which I have the pleasure Of inviting your attention, is not only sublime, but one Of stupen dous magnitude. I intend to speak upon the general subject Of astronomical science, - its sublimity, its his tory, its progress, its wonders, its utility, and its en couraging prospects for still further advancement in the distant future. If those present will but give me their earnest and unbroken attention while I introduce them in succession to the grand truths Of astronomy, my task, will be an exceedingly pleasant One.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Old and New Astronomy Classic Reprint written by Richard Anthony Proctor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old and New Astronomy If such powers of vision, and also (for they would be even more needed) such powers of conception, were given to the astronomer, that the extent of the domain which the telescope has revealed to man could be adequately recognised, while be further became cognisant of the way in which the various portions of that domain are occupied, I conceive that, deeply as he would be impressed by the amazing scene, the sense of wonder he would experience would sink almost into nothingness by comparison with that which would overwhelm him could he recognise with equal clearness the movements taking place amongst the orbs presented to his contemplation - could he see moons and moon-systems circling around primary planets, these urging their way with inconceivable velocity around their central suns, while amid the star depths the suns were seen swiftly travelling on their several courses, star streams and star-clusters aggregating or segregating according to the various influences of the attractions to which they were subject, and the vast spaces occupied by the gaseous nebulm stirred to their inmost depths by the action of mighty forces whose real nature is as yet unknown to us. During millions, during hundreds, thousands, millions of millions of years in the past, such movements have been in progress, and they will continue during countless millions of years which are yet to come. Nay, it may well be that to speak of time, thus viewed, as measurable by years, even though we number them by millions, is as idle as it would be to speak of miles when dealing with the measurement of star-strewn space. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Science of Astronomy written by Arthur K. Bartlett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Science of Astronomy: Embracing Its Sublimity, History, Progress, Wonders and Utility; A Popular Lecture But dark and lonely is the eye, That turns not, at its eve, to heaven. Nothing is more grand, more awe-inspiring, than the contemplation Of the starry heavens. The study of the stars is the most ennobling within the range Of speculative science. The mind that rises to the skies seems to soar above the littleness of earthly things, and in communing with the wonders of ap parently Silent but everlastingly rolling nature, one becomes purified, elevated, and in every way nearer to the fear of God, which is the beginning Of wisdom. Concerning the sublime and inspiring as pect of astronomy, Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the eminent English astronomer, very eloquently remarks, while referring to the beauties of the starry heavens The mind cannot but be strengthened and invigor ated, it cannot but be purified and elevated, by the contemplation Of a scene so full of magnificence, im perfect though the means be by which the won ders of the scene are made known to us. The infor mation given by the telescope 1s indeed but piecemeal, and as yet no adequate attempts have been made to bring the whole array of known facts as far as pos sible into one grand picture 5 but seen as it is, only by parts, and (even so) only as though a vail and darkly, the scene presented to the astronomer is the grandest and the most awe - inspiring which man can study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book The Recent Progrss of Astronomy written by Elias Loomis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Recent Progrss of Astronomy: Especially in the United States I have endeavored to award equal and exact justice to all American astronomers; and if any individual should feel that his labors in this department have not been fairly rep resented, he is requested to furnish me in writing a minute account of the same, and I will endeavor to make amends in a second edition of the work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book New Theories in Astronomy Classic Reprint written by William Stirling and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Theories in Astronomy These re ections are in greater or lesser degree applicable to all knowledge and science of all kinds, even theological, in all their individual branches, and can be very easily shown to be both reasonable and true. And it may be added, or rather it is necessary to add, that every one of all the branches of all of them has a very manifest tendency towards despotism to impose its sway and way of thinking upon the whole world. At various intervals during the present century speculation has been indulged in, and more or less lively discussion has taken place about the great benefit it would confer on uni versal humanity, were all the weights and measures of the whole earth arranged on the same standard. The universal standard proposed has been, of course, the metrical system, which had been elaborated by French savants who most pro bably thought they had arrived at such a state of knowledge that they were able to establish the foundations of all science of all kinds and for all time, upon the most sure and most durable principles. These periods of metrical fever, so to Speak, seem to come on without any apparent immediately exciting cause, and some people succumb to the disease, others do not, just the same as in the cases of cholera, in uenza, plague, etc. Whether some species of inoculation for it may be discovered, or whether it will be found that an unlimited attack is really perfect health, will most probably be found out in the course of time, although it may be some centuries hence. What is of interest to under stand at the present time is, what are the benefits to be derived from the proposed universal standard of weights and measures, and how they are to be attained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Download or read book Short History of Astronomy Classic Reprint written by Arthur Berry and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Short History of Astronomy I have tried to give in this book an outline of the history of astronomy from the earliest historical times to the present day, and to present it in a form which shall be intelligible to a reader who has no special knowledge of either astronomy or mathematics, and has only an ordinary educated person's power of following scientific reasoning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Popular Astronomy Classic Reprint written by Simon Newcomb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Popular Astronomy Astronomy is the most ancient of the physical sciences, be ing distinguished among them by its slow and progressive development from the earliest ages until the present time. In no other science has each generation which advanced it 'been so much indebted to its predecessors for both the facts and the ideas necessary to make the advance. The conception of a globular and moving earth pursuing her course through the celestial spaces among her sister planets, which we see as stars, is one to the entire evolution of which no one mind and no one age can lay claim. It was the result of a gradual process of education, of which the subject was not an indi vidual, but the human race. The great astronomers of all ages have built upon foundations laid by their predecessors; and when we attempt to search out the first founder, we find ourselves lost in the mists of antiquity. The theory of uni versal gravitation was founded by Newton upon the laws of Kepler, the observations and measurements of his French con temporaries, and the geometry of Apollonius. Kepler used as his material the observations of Tycho Brahe, and built upon the theory of Copernicus. When we seek the origin of the instruments used by Tycho, we soon find ourselves among2 system OF the world historically developed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.