By DENISON OLMSTED, LL.D. ,
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE REVISED EDITION.
CONTENTS.
LETTERS ON ASTRONOMY. LETTER I. INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS.
LETTER II. DOCTRINE OF THE SPHERE. "All are but parts of one
LETTER III. ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS. TELESCOPE. "Here
LETTER IV TELESCOPE CONTINUED. "the broad circumference
LETTER V. OBSERVATORIES. "We, though from heaven remote, to
LETTER VI. TIME AND THE CALENDAR. "From old Eternity's
LETTER VII. FIGURE OF THE EARTH. "He took the golden compasses,
LETTER VIII. DIURNAL REVOLUTIONS.
LETTER IX. PARALLAX AND REFRACTION. "Go, wondrous creature!
LETTER X. THE SUN. "Great source of day! best image here below
LETTER XI. ANNUAL REVOLUTION. SEASONS "These, as they change,
LETTER XII. LAWS OF MOTION. "What though in solemn silence, all
LETTER XIII. TERRESTRIAL GRAVITY. "To Him no high, no low, no
LETTER XIV. SIR ISAAC NEWTON. UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION. FIGURE
LETTER XV. THE MOON.
LETTER XVI. THE MOON. PHASES. HARVEST MOON. LIBRATIONS.
LETTER XVII. MOON'S ORBIT. HER IRREGULARITIES.
LETTER XVIII. ECLIPSES. "As when the sun, new risen, Looks
LETTER XIX. LONGITUDE. TIDES.
LETTER XX. PLANETS. MERCURY AND VENUS. "First, Mercury, amidst
LETTER XXI. SUPERIOR PLANETS: MARS, JUPITER, SATURN, AND
LETTER XXII. COPERNICUS. GALILEO. "They leave at length the
LETTER XXIII. SATURN. URANUS. ASTEROIDS. "Into the Heaven of
LETTER XXIV. THE PLANETARY MOTIONS. KEPLER'S
LETTER XXV. COMETS. "Fancy now no more Wantons on fickle
LETTER XXVI. COMETS, CONTINUED. "Incensed with indignation,
LETTER XXVII. METEORIC SHOWERS. "Oft shalt thou see, ere
LETTER XXVIII. FIXED STARS. "O, majestic Night! Nature's
LETTER XXIX. FIXED STARS CONTINUED. "O how canst thou renounce
LETTER XXX. SYSTEM OF THE WORLD "O how unlike the complex works
LETTER XXXI. NATURAL THEOLOGY. "Philosophy, baptized In the
LETTER XXXII. RECENT DISCOVERIES. "All are but parts of one stupendous whole." Pope.
INDEX.
RECENT DISCOVERIES.
Transcriber's Notes
FAMILIARLY EXPLAINED IN CONNECTION WITH BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF THE MOST EMINENT ASTRONOMERS.
WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.
