Astronomical Discovery
by H. H. Turner
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About this eBook
- Author
- Turner, H. H. (Herbert Hall), 1861-1930
- Credits
- Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Joseph Myers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QB: Science: Astronomy
- Subject
- Astronomy -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 33337
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33337
- Release Date
- August 3, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY — ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY — BY — HERBERT HALL TURNER, D.Sc., F.R.S.
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF PLATES
- 5.ERRATA
- 6.ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY
- 7.CHAPTER I — URANUS AND EROS
- 8.CHAPTER II — THE DISCOVERY OF NEPTUNE
- 9.CHAPTER III — BRADLEY’S DISCOVERIES OF THE ABERRATION OF LIGHT AND OF THE NUTATION OF THE EARTH’S AXIS
- 10.CHAPTER IV — ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERIES
- 11.CHAPTER V — SCHWABE AND THE SUN-SPOT PERIOD
- 12.CHAPTER VI — THE VARIATION OF LATITUDE
- 13.INDEX
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