Essays in astronomy
By: by Ball, Harkness, Herschel, Huggins, Laplace, Mitchel, Proctor, Schiaparelli, and others, with a critical introduction by Edward Singleton Holden ...
Edition: [Aldine ed.].
Series: The world's great books; World's great books.
Publisher: D. Appleton & company
Published: 1900
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
Subjects: Astronomy.
Table of contents: value: Ball, Sir R.S. Atoms and sunbeams.; value: Ball, Sir R.S. Wanderings of the North pole.; value: Thomson, Sir W. Age of the sun's heat.; value: Proctor, R.A. Past and future of our earth.; value: Proctor, R.A. New theory of life in other worlds.; value: Woodward, R.S. Mathematical theories of the earth.; value: Schiaparelli, G.V. Rotation and physical constitution of the planet Mercury.; value: Schiaparelli, G.V. Planet Mars.; value: Darwin, G.H. Meteorites and stellar systems.; value: Harkness, W. Magnitude of the solar system.; value: Mitchel, O.M. Stability of the solar system.; value: Ledger, E. The new planet, Eros.; value: Holden, E.S. Sidereal astronomy: old and new.; value: Holden, E.S. Photography the servant of astronomy.; value: Holden, E.S. Beginnings of American astronomy.; value: Herschel, Sir J.F.W. Stellar parallax.; value: Hastings, C.S. History of the telescope.; value: Huggins, W. Results of spectrum analysis applied to heavenly bodies.; value: Huggins, W. Celestial spectroscopy.; value: Huggins, W. New astronomy.; value: Gill, D. An astronomer's work in a modern observatory.; value: Laplace, P.S. System of the world; value: The nebular hypothesis.; value: Searle, G.M. Are the planets habitable?