Pleasures of the Telescope
by Garrett Putman Serviss
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About this eBook
- Author
- Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929
- Title
- Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers
- Credits
- Produced by V. L. Simpson, Nigel Blower 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 -- Amateurs' manuals
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 28752
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28752
- Release Date
- May 10, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PLEASURES OF THE TELESCOPE — AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS AND A POPULAR DESCRIPTION OF THE CHIEF WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS FOR GENERAL READERS — BY GARRETT P. SERVISS — WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS — NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1901 — Copyright, 1901, By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.CHAPTER I — THE SELECTION AND TESTING OF A GLASS
- 5.CHAPTER II — IN THE STARRY HEAVENS
- 6.CHAPTER III — FROM GEMINI TO LEO AND ROUND ABOUT
- 7.CHAPTER IV — VIRGO AND HER NEIGHBORS
- 8.CHAPTER V — IN SUMMER STAR-LANDS
- 9.CHAPTER VI — FROM LYRA TO ERIDANUS
- 10.CHAPTER VII — PISCES, ARIES, TAURUS, AND THE NORTHERN STARS
- 11.CHAPTER VIII — SCENES ON THE PLANETS
- 12.CHAPTER IX — THE MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS OF THE MOON, AND THE SPECTACLES OF THE SUN — The Sun
- 13.CHAPTER X — ARE THERE PLANETS AMONG THE STARS?
- 14.FOOTNOTES
- 15.INDEX — THE END — Transcriber's Note
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