CONTENTS
Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage
CHAPTER I
PAGE
The Ancient View
17
CHAPTER II
The Modern View
20
CHAPTER III
The Solar System
29
CHAPTER IV
Celestial Mechanism
38
CHAPTER V
Celestial Distances
46
CHAPTER VI
Celestial Measurement
55
CHAPTER VII
Eclipses and Kindred Phenomena
61
CHAPTER VIII
Famous Eclipses of the Sun
83
CHAPTER IX
Famous Eclipses of the Moon
101
CHAPTER X
The Growth of Observation
105
CHAPTER XI
Spectrum Analysis
121
CHAPTER XII
The Sun
127
CHAPTER XIII
The Sun
—
continued
134
CHAPTER XIV
The Inferior Planets
146
CHAPTER XV
The Earth
158
CHAPTER XVI
The Moon
183
CHAPTER XVII
The Superior Planets
209
CHAPTER XVIII
The Superior Planets
—
continued
229
CHAPTER XIX
Comets
247
CHAPTER XX
Remarkable Comets
259
CHAPTER XXI
Meteors Or Shooting Stars
266
CHAPTER XXII
The Stars
278
CHAPTER XXIII
The Stars
—
continued
287
CHAPTER XXIV
Systems of Stars
300
CHAPTER XXV
The Stellar Universe
319
CHAPTER XXVI
The Stellar Universe
—
continued
329
CHAPTER XXVII
The Beginning of Things
333
CHAPTER XXVIII
The End of Things
342
Index
351
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