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 ...
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and co.
Published: 1875
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Astronomy.; Solar system.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: The gamut of light.; value: Other habitable worlds.; value: Other inhabited worlds.; value: The Rosse telescope set to new work.; value: The planet of love.; value: The planet of war.; value: A miniature sun.; value: Shooting stars, meteors, and aërolites.; value: Meteors and meteor systems.; value: Professor Tyndall's theory of comets.; value: Comets and comets' tails.; value: The sun's corona.; value: What, then, is the corona?; value: The corona as a phenomenon of eruption.; value: Colours of double stars.