Astronomical Myths
by J. F. Blake
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About this eBook
- Author
- Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925
- Title
- Astronomical Myths: Based on Flammarions's "History of the Heavens"
- Credits
- Produced by Eric Hutton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QB: Science: Astronomy
- Subject
- Constellations
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 36495
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36495
- Release Date
- June 22, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ASTRONOMICAL MYTHS. — ASTRONOMICAL MYTHS, — FLAMMARION'S "HISTORY OF THE HEAVENS."
- 2.JOHN F. BLAKE. — London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1877.
- 3.PREFACE.
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5.CONTENTS. — HISTORY OF THE HEAVENS.
- 6.CHAPTER I. — THE FIRST BEGINNINGS OF ASTRONOMY.
- 7.CHAPTER II. — ASTRONOMY OF THE CELTS.
- 8.CHAPTER III. — ORIGIN OF THE CONSTELLATIONS.
- 9.CHAPTER IV. — THE ZODIAC.
- 10.CHAPTER V. — THE PLEIADES.
- 11.CHAPTER VI. — THE NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF THE HEAVENS ACCORDING TO THE ANCIENTS.
- 12.CHAPTER VII. — THE CELESTIAL HARMONY.
- 13.CHAPTER VIII. — ASTRONOMICAL SYSTEMS.
- 14.CHAPTER IX. — THE TERRESTRIAL WORLD OF THE ANCIENTS.—COSMOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY.
- 15.CHAPTER X. — COSMOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE CHURCH.
- 16.CHAPTER XI. — LEGENDARY WORLDS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
- 17.CHAPTER XII. — ECLIPSES AND COMETS.
- 18.CHAPTER XIII. — THE GREATNESS AND THE FALL OF ASTROLOGY.
- 19.CHAPTER XIV. — TIME AND THE CALENDAR.
- 20.CHAPTER XV. — THE END OF THE WORLD. — THE END.
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