A Short History of Astronomy
by Arthur Berry
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About this eBook
- Author
- Arthur Berry
- Credits
- Produced by deaurider, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Astronomy -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 59212
- Release Date
- April 5, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber’s Notes
- 2.A Short History of Astronomy
- 3.PREFACE.
- 4.CONTENTS.
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 6.Untitled
- 7.CHAPTER I. PRIMITIVE ASTRONOMY.
- 8.CHAPTER II. GREEK ASTRONOMY.
- 9.CHAPTER III. THE MIDDLE AGES.
- 10.CHAPTER IV. COPPERNICUS.
- 11.CHAPTER V. THE RECEPTION OF THE COPPERNICAN THEORY AND THE PROGRESS OF OBSERVATION.
- 12.CHAPTER VI. GALILEI.
- 13.CHAPTER VII. KEPLER.
- 14.CHAPTER VIII. FROM GALILEI TO NEWTON.
- 15.CHAPTER IX. UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION.
- 16.CHAPTER X. OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY IN THE 18TH CENTURY.
- 17.CHAPTER XI. GRAVITATIONAL ASTRONOMY IN THE 18TH CENTURY.
- 18.CHAPTER XII. HERSCHEL.
- 19.CHAPTER XIII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
- 20.AUTHORITIES AND BOOKS FOR STUDENTS. — I. General. — II. Special Periods.
- 21.INDEX OF NAMES.
- 22.GENERAL INDEX. — FOOTNOTES:
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