A Text-book of Astronomy
by George C. Comstock
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About this eBook
- Author
- Comstock, George C. (George Cary), 1855-1934
- Title
- A Text-Book of Astronomy
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Iris Schimandle, Lindy Walsh and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QB: Science: Astronomy
- Subject
- Astronomy
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 34834
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34834
- Release Date
- January 3, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A TEXT-BOOK OF ASTRONOMY — BY
- 2.GEORGE C. COMSTOCK
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIST OF LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES
- 6.LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS — ASTRONOMY
- 7.CHAPTER I — DIFFERENT KINDS OF MEASUREMENT
- 8.CHAPTER II — THE STARS AND THEIR DIURNAL MOTION
- 9.CHAPTER III — FIXED AND WANDERING STARS — Table of Epochs
- 10.CHAPTER IV — CELESTIAL MECHANICS — Table
- 11.CHAPTER V — THE EARTH AS A PLANET
- 12.CHAPTER VI — THE MEASUREMENT OF TIME
- 13.CHAPTER VII — ECLIPSES — Eclipses of the Year 1900 — Solar Eclipse Limits — Lunar Eclipse Limits
- 14.CHAPTER VIII — INSTRUMENTS AND THE PRINCIPLES INVOLVED IN THEIR USE
- 15.CHAPTER IX — THE MOON
- 16.CHAPTER X — THE SUN
- 17.CHAPTER XI — THE PLANETS — Jupiter — Saturn — Uranus and Neptune — Venus — Mercury — Mars — The Asteroids
- 18.CHAPTER XII — COMETS AND METEORS
- 19.CHAPTER XIII — THE FIXED STARS — The Sun's Nearest Neighbors
- 20.CHAPTER XIV — STARS AND NEBULÆ
- 21.CHAPTER XV — GROWTH AND DECAY — FOOTNOTES
- 22.APPENDIX — The Greek Alphabet — Popular Literature of Astronomy — General Treatises — Special Treatises — A List of Stars for Time Observations
- 23.INDEX — THE END
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