In starry realms
By: by Sir Robert S. Ball ...
Edition: Cheap ed.
Publisher: Bath and New York, Sir Isaac Pitman & sons, ltd.
Published: 1912
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Astronomy.; Evolution.; Krakatoa (Indonesia)
Table of contents: title: The heat of the sun.; title: Expenditure and supply.; title: How the heat is kept up.; title: What we owe to the sun.; title: The constant face of the moon.; title: The moon's history.; title: The lunar world.; title: A visit to an observatory.; title: An evening with the telescope.; title: Note on nubulae.; title: Venus and Mercury.; title: Mars as a world.; title: The greatest planet.; title: The names of the planets.; title: A falling star.; title: Fire-balls.; title: Showers of shooting stars.; title: The number of the stars.; title: The extent of the sidereal heavens.; title: The movements of the stars.; title: Photographing the stars.; title: An astronomer's thoughts about Krakatoa.; title: Darwinism and its relation to other branches of science.