Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Astronomy a Living Science	9
II	The First Astronomers	19
III	Pyramid, Tomb, and Temple	23
IV	Origin of Greek Astronomy	27
V	Measuring the Earth—Eratosthenes	30
VI	Ptolemy and His Great Book	33
VII	Astronomy of the Middle Ages	37
VIII	Copernicus and the New Era	42
IX	Tycho, the Great Observer	45
X	Kepler, the Great Calculator	49
XI	Galileo, the Great Experimenter	53
XII	After the Great Masters	57
XIII	Newton and Motion	62
XIV	Newton and Gravitation	66
XV	After Newton	73
XVI	Halley and His Comet	83
XVII	Bradley and Aberration	90
XVIII	The Telescope	93
XIX	Reflectors—Mirror Telescopes	102
XX	The Story of the Spectroscope	111
XXI	The Story of Astronomical Photography	125
XXII	Mountain Observatories	139
XXIII	The Program of a Great Observatory	152
XXIV	Our Solar System	162
XXV	The Sun and Observing It	165
XXVI	Sun Spots and Prominences	174
XXVII	The Inner Planets	189
XXVIII	The Moon and Her Surface	193
XXIX	Eclipses of the Moon	206
XXX	Total Eclipses of the Sun	209
XXXI	The Solar Corona	219
XXXII	The Ruddy Planet	227
XXXIII	The Canals of Mars	235
XXXIV	Life in Other Worlds	242
XXXV	The Little Planets	254
XXXVI	The Giant Planet	260
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