CONTENTS
George Forbes
PREFACE
BOOK I. THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD
1. PRIMITIVE ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY
2. ANCIENT ASTRONOMY—CHINESE AND CHALDÆANS
3. ANCIENT GREEK ASTRONOMY
4. THE REIGN OF EPICYCLES—FROM PTOLEMY TO COPERNICUS
BOOK II. THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD
5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM—TYCHO BRAHE—KEPLER
6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE—NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS, ETC.
7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON—LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION
8. NEWTON’S SUCCESSORS—HALLEY, EULER, LAGRANGE, LAPLACE, ETC.
9. DISCOVERY OF NEW PLANETS—HERSCHEL, PIAZZI, ADAMS, AND LE VERRIER
BOOK III. OBSERVATION
10. INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION—SIZE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
11. HISTORY OF THE TELESCOPE—SPECTROSCOPE
BOOK IV. THE PHYSICAL PERIOD
12. THE SUN
13. THE MOON AND PLANETS
14. COMETS AND METEORS
15. THE STARS AND NEBULÆ
ILLUSTRATIONS
INDEX
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