Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science

Newcomb, Simon · 1909

Produced by Charles Franks, Robert Rowe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines. I. THE UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF ASTRONOMY II. THE NEW PROBLEMS OF THE UNIVERSE III. THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE IV. THE EXTENT OF THE UNIVERSE V. MAKING AND USING A TELESCOPE VI. WHAT THE ASTRONOMERS ARE DOING VII. LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE VIII. HOW THE PLANETS ARE WEIGHED IX. THE MARINER'S COMPASS X. THE FAIRYLAND OF GEOMETRY XI. THE ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH XII. CAN WE MAKE IT RAIN? XIII. THE ASTRONOMICAL EPHEMERIS AND NAUTICAL ALMANAC XIV. THE WORLD'S DEBT TO ASTRONOMY XV. AN ASTRONOMICAL FRIENDSHIP XVI. THE EVOLUTION O…

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