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 New Astronomy Classic Reprint written by Samuel Pierpont Langley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Astronomy It is not generally understood that among us not only the support of the Government, but with scarcely an exception every new private benefaction, is devoted to the Old As L tronomy, which is relatively munificently endowed already; while that which I have here called the New, so fruitful in results of interest and importance, struggles almost unaided. 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 ASTRONOMY written by MARTIN STANISLAUS. BRENNAN and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Astronomy Classic Reprint written by David P. Todd and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A New Astronomy Astronomy is preeminently a science of observation. And there is no sufficient reason why it should not be so studied. Thereby will be fostered a habit of intellectual alertness which lets nothing slip. Six teen years' experience in teaching the subject has taught me many lessons that I have endeavored to embody here. Earth, air, and water (merely material things) are always with us. We touch them, handle them, ascertain their properties, and experiment upon their relations. Plainly, in their study, laboratory courses are possible. So, too, is a laboratory course in astronomy, without actually journeying to the heavenly bodies; for light comes from them in decipherable messages. And geometric truth provides the interpretation. But the student should learn to connect fundamental principles of astronomy with tangible objects of the common sort, somewhat as in physics and chemistry; and I have aimed to indicate practically how teachers and pupils of moderate mechanical deftness can themselves make the appa ratus requisite for illustrating many of these principles. All of it has been repeatedly constructed; and its use should pave the way to better equipment for more advanced 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.
Download or read book Machinery of the Heavens written by Asahel Phelps Pichereau and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Theories in Astronomy Classic Reprint written by William Stirling and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Theories in Astronomy These reflections 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 sen/ants 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, influenza, 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 Brinkley s Astronomy Classic Reprint written by John Brinkley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Brinkley's Astronomy I have also endeavoured to substitute new and simpler mathematical demonstrations in many cases where my experience led me to think that the old ones were too cumbrous, and have added a series of questions on the first thirteen chapters which I hope will be found useful to the Students prepar ing for examinations. On the whole, it has been my anxious wish to remodel the work of Bishop Brinkley so as to make it correspond with the present extended knowledge of this science, and at the same time to furnish in it such a text-book as my experience as a teacher shows to be required. 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 A Treatise on Astronomy Classic Reprint written by Elias Loomis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on Astronomy My special acknowledgments are due to Professor H. A. New ton, who has read all the proofs of the work, and to whom I am indebted for numerous important suggestions. 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 ASTRONOMY CLASSIC REPRINT written by PETER. BARLOW and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Outlines of Astronomy Classic Reprint written by John Frederick William Herschel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Outlines of Astronomy If proof were wanted of the inexhaustible fertility of astro nomical science in points of novelty and interest, it would suffice to adduce the addition to the list of members of our system of no less than eight new planets and satellites during the prepara tion of these sheets for the press. Among them is one whose discovery must ever be regarded as one of the noblest triumphs of theory. In the account here given of this discovery, I trust to have expressed myself with complete impartiality; and in the exposition of the perturbative action on Uranus, by which the existence and situation of the disturbing planet became revealed to us, I have endeavoured, in pursuance of the general plan of this work, rather to exhibit a rational view of the dynamical action, than to convey the slightest idea of the conduct of those masterpieces of analytical skill which the researches of Messrs. Leverrier and Adams exhibit. 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 Schnell Astronomy Classic Reprint written by Albert Frederick Schnell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Schnell Astronomy It also shows that our solar system is a well-organ ized family, obeying and being governed by the same law as the human race; that the planets follow our lives and come into existence the same as we do, by mating, and then have their offspring, which in turn reproduce their kind, the same as Man, Beast, or Bird; that every thing that exists, all organized bodies, obey one law, and that is to propagate their species, only that there are different stages of evolution of the lives that, exist. 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 Handbook of Astronomy Classic Reprint written by Dionysius Lardner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-26 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Handbook of Astronomy Some of these, expressing mere arithmetical operations effected upon numbers, are easily understood by all persons to whom such a work as the present is addressed, and, as they express in many cases the relations of quantities and the laws which govern them with greater brevity and clearness than ordinary language, to exclude the use of them altogether would be to deprive the reader of one of the most powerful aids to the comprehension of the laws of nature. 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 Freeburg s Manual of Astronomy Classic Reprint written by Alfred Freeburg and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Freeburg's Manual of Astronomy The heaven is a great dome. It contains many great objects, and their great distance from us and how they can exist without a foundation or some thingto hold them up is mysterious to most any man's mind. But nature has brought them there to stay for innumerable ages. These bodies are held in check by an magnetic current from our sun. This magnetic current is caused by the heat from the sun and cooled by space, and works nearly on the same principle as load stone. The object of writing this book is to give the people of the world a full under standing, as far as I am able to explain, what I have observed in the star heaven and studied nature for thirty-five years. My aim is to give'to the world the truth as far as I understand it. I have treated in this book on all the objects in space that can be seen with a naked eye. In my next publication treat ing on the heavenly bodies I will give very nearly the exact distance to the sun and the moon. I think the distance given to the sun is too great or the moon is too near to the earth. 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 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.
Download or read book Studies in Astronomy Classic Reprint written by J. Ellard Gore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Astronomy Contains much information in small. Space. It has been parefully brought up to date; It is a compact and useful little volume anda list of the constellations now in use, along With other lists of notable stars - given in the Appendix - increase its value. - sheffield dailv telegraph. Not only a useful guide to the amateur observer of the stellar heavens, but also full of interest to those who are onlystudents of the labours of others, yet desire to keep up with the progress of this specially important department of the sciences. 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.
