Studies in astronomy
By: by J. Ellard Gore.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1904
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Astronomy.
Notes: "Most of the articles ... have been published ... in the Gentleman's magazine, Knowledge, the Observatory, etc."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: The size of the solar system.; title: Jupiter and its system.; title: Giant telescopes.; title: The distances of the stars.; title: The sun's journey through space.; title: The story of Gamma Virginis.; title: The Pleiades.; title: Globular star clusters.; title: The sun's stellar magnitude.; title: The suns of space.; title: Stellar satellites.; title: Spectroscopic binaries.; title: "The darkness behind the stars."; title: The nebular hypothesis.; title: Stellar evolution.; title: The construction of the visible universe.; title: The secular variation of starlight.; title: The Herschels and the nebulae.; title: A chapter in the history of astronomy.; title: Messier's nebulae.; title: The ring nebula in Lyra.; title: A great Belgian astronomer.; title: Some recent advances in stellar astronomy.; title: The new star in Perseus.; title: The coming comet.; title: Immensity and minuteness.; title: Light, electricity, and the ether.; title: Appendix: Binary stars.