A Century's Progress in Astronomy
by Hector Macpherson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Macpherson, Hector, 1888-1956
- Credits
- Produced by Charlene Taylor, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QB: Science: Astronomy
- Subject
- Astronomy -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 63615
- Release Date
- November 3, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A Century’s Progress IN Astronomy
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS. — A CENTURY’S PROGRESS IN ASTRONOMY.
- 4.CHAPTER I. HERSCHEL THE PIONEER.
- 5.CHAPTER II. HERSCHEL THE DISCOVERER.
- 6.CHAPTER III. THE SUN.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. THE MOON.
- 8.CHAPTER V. THE INNER PLANETS.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. THE OUTER PLANETS.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. COMETS.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. METEORS.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. THE STARS.
- 13.CHAPTER X. THE LIGHT OF THE STARS.
- 14.CHAPTER XI. STELLAR SYSTEMS AND NEBULÆ.
- 15.CHAPTER XII. STELLAR DISTRIBUTION AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE.
- 16.CHAPTER XIII. CELESTIAL EVOLUTION.
- 17.INDEX. — CORRIGENDA.
- 18.Transcriber’s Notes
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