Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
by Simon Newcomb
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About this eBook
- Author
- Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909
- Credits
- Produced by Charles Franks, Robert Rowe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QB: Science: Astronomy
- Subject
- Rain-making
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 4065
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4065
- Release Date
- May 1, 2003
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SIDE-LIGHTS ON ASTRONOMY
- 2.AND KINDRED FIELDS OF POPULAR SCIENCE — ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES — BY
- 3.SIMON NEWCOMB
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.ILLUSTRATIONS — PREFACE — I — THE UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF ASTRONOMY — II — THE NEW PROBLEMS OF THE UNIVERSE — III — THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE — IV — THE EXTENT OF THE UNIVERSE — V — MAKING AND USING A TELESCOPE — VI — WHAT THE ASTRONOMERS ARE DOING — VII — LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE — VIII — HOW THE PLANETS ARE WEIGHED — IX — THE MARINER'S COMPASS — X — THE FAIRYLAND OF GEOMETRY — XI — THE ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH — XII — CAN WE MAKE IT RAIN? — XIII — THE ASTRONOMICAL EPHEMERIS AND THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC — XIV — THE WORLD'S DEBT TO ASTRONOMY — XV — AN ASTRONOMICAL FRIENDSHIP — XVI — THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATOR — XVII — THE EVOLUTION OF ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE — XVIII — ASPECTS OF AMERICAN ASTRONOMY — XIX — THE UNIVERSE AS AN ORGANISM — XX — THE RELATION OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD TO SOCIAL PROGRESS — XXI — THE OUTLOOK FOR THE FLYING-MACHINE
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