The orbs around us
Subtitle: a series of familiar essays on the moon and planets, meteors and comets, the sun and coloured pairs of suns.
By: By Richard A. Proctor.
Publisher: Longmans, Green and co.; Scribner, Welford and Armstrong
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Astronomy; Solar system
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The gamut of light.; title: Other habitable worlds.; title: Other inhabited worlds.; title: The Rosse telescope set to new work.; title: The planet of love.; title: The planet of war.; title: A minature sun.; title: Shooting stars, meteors, and aerolites.; title: Meteors and meteor systems.; title: Professor Tyndall's theory of comets.; title: Comets and comet's tails.; title: The sun's corona.; title: What, then, is the corona ?; title: The corona as a phenomenon of eruption.; title: Colours of the double stars.