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Astronomical Essays
Astronomical Essays Historical and Descriptive
Essays on Astronomy
Author: Richard Anthony Proctor
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gathering of essays from various scientific journals by the noted British astronomer, Richard A. Proctor (1837-88). Proctor was the author of more than 40 books on the subject and is credited with popularizing astronomy in the 19th century. He was the first to suggest that lunar craters were the result of meteor impacts and not volcanic activity and won recogition for his 1867 map of the surface of Mars showing continents, seas, bays and straits. This book contains essays on subjects including: Sir John Herschel; the planet Mars; Saturn's rings; meteors and shooting stars; the zodiacal light; the solar corona; the sun's journey through space; distribution of the nebulae; a new theory of the Milky Way; the diurnal rotation of Mars; the proper motion of the Sun; the transit of Venus in 1874 and many other subjects. The illustrations include a handsome frontis lithograph of Saturn and its rings and there is also a folding plan of the orbits of Earth and Mars and 5 folding charts showing various stages of the transit of Venus in 1874. There are 3 full-page polar and equatorial maps on black paper showing distribution of Nebulae.
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Astronomical Essays
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Astronomical Essays Historical and Descriptive (Classic Reprint)
Author: J. Ellard Gore
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-12-16
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780332993515
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Astronomical Essays Historical and Descriptive The Secular Variation of Stars, The Number of the Visible Stars, and The Satellite of Sirius. The rest have not been hitherto published. For much of the information contained in the first three essays, and in N os. 7 and 8, I am indebted to Houzeau and Lancaster's Bibliographic Générale de i'astronomie, vol. I., Introduction. For the illustrations, my best thanks are due to Professor Barnard, B.se., of the Yerkes Observatory and to Dr. Max Wolf, of Heidelberg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Astronomical Essays Historical and Descriptive
Author: J Ellard 1845-1910 Gore
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2016-05-25
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781359686466
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