Download or read book Practical Talks by an Astronomer Classic Reprint written by Harold Jacoby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Practical Talks by an Astronomer The 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 un attractive, because they must aim at complete ness. Completeness means detail, and detail means dryness. 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 Practical Talks by an Astronomer written by Harold Jacoby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Practical Talks by an Astronomer The 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 they must aim at completeness. Completeness means detail, and detail means dryness. But the science of astronomy contains subjects that admit of detached treatment; and as many of these are precisely the ones of greatest general interest, it has seemed well to select several, and describe them in language free from technicalities. 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 Practical Talks by an Astronomer written by Harold Jacoby and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise work on several elements concerning the subject of astronomy. It's a perfect book for beginners in astronomy that introduces them to telescopes, planets, stars, skies, and celestial maps. The American astronomer and the author of this work, Harold Jacoby, described the topics in simple and easy-to-understand language. Jacoby made many observations of celestial occurrences such as lunar and solar eclipses. He was popular in Europe and America and was a member of many scientific groups. Contents include: Navigation at Sea The Pleiades The Pole-Star Nebulæ Temporary Stars Galileo The Planet of 1898 How to Make a Sun-Dial Photography in Astronomy Time Standards of the World Motions of the Earth's Pole Saturn's Rings The Heliometer Occultations Mounting Great Telescopes The Astronomer's Pole The Moon Hoax The Sun's Destination
Download or read book Practical Talks by an Astronomer written by Harold Jacoby and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1902, Practical Talks by an Astronomer is a narrative account of the author. It contains an interesting overview of Astronomy, written at the turn of the 20th century. It is composed of eighteen topics in two hundred and ten pages with actual photographs of the moon on the first quarter, Spiral nebula in constellation Leo, nebula in Andromeda, the Dumb-Bell nebula, star-field in constellation Monoceros, solar corona on a total eclipse, a forty-ich telescope in Yerkes observatory and the Yerkes observatory in the University of Chicago.
Download or read book Practical Astronomy for Engineers Classic Reprint written by Frederick Hanley Seares and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Practical Astronomy for Engineers The numerical solutions for most of the examples have been printed in detail in order better to illustrate both the application of the formula involved and the operations to be performed by the computer. Care has been taken to secure accuracy in the text as well as in the examples, but a considerable number of errors have already been noted. For these the reader is referred to the list of errata on page 132. 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 Spherical and Practical Astronomy Classic Reprint written by George C. Comstock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Spherical and Practical Astronomy A method of reduction which is the same for both types of level, and which is in most cases more convenient than the above, is as follows: In the square array of numbers which constitute the observed readings of the level, take the diagonal differences. The mean of the two diagonal differences is the inclination of the line in half divisions of the level. That end of the line is the higher which is ad jacent to the greatest single reading. If the level readings have been correctly made the two diagonal differences will be the same, and the reduction thus serves as a check upon the accuracy of the record. Thus, from the readings given above, we see at a glance that in the first case 2 half divisions and the readings have been correctly made. In the second case z half divisions and there is a discrepancy of div. In the readings. 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 Treatise Astronomy Theoretical and Practical Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Robert Woodhouse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Treatise Astronomy Theoretical and Practical, Vol. 1 Phenomena are Observed, and their quantities and laws ascertained, I have described, although not minutely, some of the principal instruments of an Observatory. 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 written by H. N. Robinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on Astronomy: Descriptive, Physical and Practical, Designed for Schools, Colleges, and Private Students To give at once a. Clear explanation of the design and in tended character of this work, it is important to state that its author, in early life, imbibed quite a passion for astronomy, and, of course, he naturally sought the aid of books; but, in this field of research, he was really astonished to find how little substantial aid he could procure from that source, and not even to this day have his desires been gratified. Then, as now, books of great worth and high merit were to as found, but they did not meet the wants of a learner; the substantially good were too voluminous and mathematically abstruse to be much used by the humble pupil, and the less mathematical were too superficial and trifling to give satis faction to the real aspirant after astronomical knowledge. 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 Lectures on Practical Astronomy and Astronomical Instruments Classic Reprint written by James Challis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on Practical Astronomy and Astronomical Instruments Elementary Treatise); and the process of taking observations with the Greenwich Reflex Zenith Tube. The treatment of these subjects has given to the work an extension much beyond what I at first contemplated, but at the same time its usefulness as an astronomical manual may be considered to be much increased by being thus made to exhibit with, a great degree of completeness the actual state of observational 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 Familiar Talks on Astronomy written by William Harwar Parker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Familiar Talks on Astronomy: With Chapters on Geography and Navigaton I have used few diagrams, because I believe the student had better think out many matters for himself. I have repeated myself frequently and intentionally when I particularly wished to impress a certain point upon the reader, and the quotations are introduced for the same purpose. 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 Amateur Astronomer Classic Reprint written by Gideon Riegler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Amateur Astronomer It is Clear that itwould be an impossibility for' an investigator to carry on a survey of the whole, and to work in each of these separate fields. So much the more, then, will the student of the heavens, who only in leisure hours can occupy himself with these stirring studies, see the necessity of deciding in favour of one or other specific department. How great and general is the interest that astronomy holds for the widest circles, 15 shown by the large number of Popular Astronomy books that are constantly appearing in new editions. 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 Br nnow s Spherical Astronomy Classic Reprint written by Robert Main and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Brunnow's Spherical Astronomy The want of a Text-book for Spherical Astronomy has been long felt in the University of Cambridge, and indeed in all the Universities of the British Isles in which the Mathematical Sciences are cultivated. The treatise of Maddy, excellent as it was for the time when it was written, has long since ceased to be of much service for the instruction of students who are desirous of knowing the methods, both theoretical and practical, used by the astronomers of the present time; while that of Woodhouse, though it deals more practically with the operations pursued in fixed Oh servatories, is also comparatively useless, because it describes both instruments and methods which have long been 'oh solete. It has been, at least in part, a consequence of the want of a good treatise on practical astronomy, that this science has been far less cultivated in the University of Cambridge than it ought to have been, and that very few indeed of the students acquire any adequate acquaintance with the methods of the present time, as taught in the works of the great German and English astronomers. 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 Theoretical and Practical Vol 1 written by Robert Woodhouse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on Astronomy, Theoretical and Practical, Vol. 1: Part I., Containing the Theories of the Fixed Stars On the same principle of arrangement, Eclipses are made to succeed the Solar and Lunar Theories. The method of computing them is that, which M. Biot has, in the last Edition of his Physical Astronomy, adopted. 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 Theoretical and Practical Vol 1 written by Robert Woodhouse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on Astronomy Theoretical and Practical, Vol. 1: Part II; Containing the Theories of the Sun, Planets, and Moon According to our present plan, indeed, a plan almost always adopted by Astronomical writers) we shall be obliged to go over ground already trodden on. But we shall go over it more care fully and particularly. In those parts of the solar theory which it was necessary to introduce, either for the convenient or the perspicuous treating of the sidereal, we went little beyond ap proximate results and the description of general methods. For instance, in pages 137, 138, it is directed, and rightly, to find the obliquity of the ecliptic from the greatest northern and southern declinations of the Sun. But the practical method of finding such extreme declinations was not there laid down; and on that, as on other occasions, much detail, essentially necessary indeed, but which would then have embarrassed the investigation, was, for the time, suppressed. Such detail is now to be given together with other methods, that belong to the solar theory. But it may be right, pre viously to enumerate some of the results already arrived at. 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 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 An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy written by John Gummere and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy: In Two Parts; The First Containing, a Clear and Compendious View of the Theory; The Second, a Number of Practical Problems, to Which Are Added, Solar, Lunar, and Other Astronomical Tables Cur-pi. General Phenomena of the Heavens, Can. II. Definitions of Terms. - Astronomical Instruments. 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.
