Side-lights on astronomy and kindred fields of popular science
By: essays and addresses by Simon Newcomb ...
Publisher: Harper & brothers
Published: 1906
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Astronomy.; Compass.; Hyperspace.; Learning and scholarship.; Rain-making.; Flying-machines.
Notes: Largely reprinted from various periodicals.
Table of contents: title: The unsolved problems of astronomy.; title: The new problems of the universe.; title: The structure of the universe.; title: The extent of the universe.; title: Making and using a telescope.; title: What the astronomers are doing.; title: Life in the universe.; title: How the planets are weighed.; title: The mariner's compass.; title: The fairyland of geometry.; title: The organization of scientific research.; title: Can we make it rain?; title: The astronomical ephemeris and nautical almanac.; title: The world's debt to astronomy.; title: An astronomical friendship.; title: The evolution of the scientific investigator.; title: The evolution of astronomical knowledge.; title: Aspects of American astronomy.; title: The universe as an organism.; title: The relation of scientific method to social progress.; title: The outlook for the flying-machine.