The Story of the heavens
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The Story of the heavens
（Cambridge library collection）
Cambridge University Press, 2010
- : pbk
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Includes index
Reprint. Originally published: London : Cassell, 1885
"This digitally printed version 2010" -- t.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An Irish astronomer and talented mathematician, Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913) was also a prolific writer of popular astronomy. As a young man, Ball conducted observations of nebulae using Lord Rosse's telescope - at the time the largest in the world. His Story of the Heavens displays the same fascination with the beauties and mysteries of the sky, providing a detailed survey of the history and contemporary situation of the solar system, and speculating about the possibility of life on other planets. Originally published in 1885, when Ball was Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin and Royal Astronomer of Ireland, this beautifully illustrated volume covers all eight planets, the Sun, as well as double stars, distant suns, comets, and the Milky Way. Extremely popular in its time, this book remains relevant today for its historical account of astronomy as a science.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The astronomical observatory
- 2. The Sun
- 3. The Moon
- 4. The solar system
- 5. The law of gravitation
- 6. The planet of romance
- 7. Mercury
- 8. Venus
- 9. The Earth
- 10. Mars
- 11. The minor planets
- 12. Jupiter
- 13. Saturn
- 14. Uranus
- 15. Neptune
- 16. Comets
- 17. Shooting stars
- 18. The starry heavens
- 19. The distant suns
- 20. Double stars
- 21. The distances of the stars
- 22. The spectroscope
- 23. Star clusters and nebulae
- 24. The precession and nutation of the earth's axis
- 25. The aberration of light
- 26. The astronomical significance of heat
- 27. The tides
- Appendix
- Index.
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