The Story Of The Heavens

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Author

Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), 1840-1913

Title

The Story of the Heavens

Credits

Produced by K. Nordquist, Brenda Lewis, Stephen Hope, Greg Bergquist 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

Category

Text

eBook-No.

27378

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27378

Release Date

December 1, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE STORY OF THE HEAVENS — PREFACE TO ORIGINAL EDITION.
2. 2.NOTE TO THIS EDITION.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF PLATES.
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — THE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — THE SUN.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — THE MOON.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — THE LAW OF GRAVITATION.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — THE PLANET OF ROMANCE.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — MERCURY.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — VENUS.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — THE EARTH.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. — MARS.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — THE MINOR PLANETS.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — JUPITER.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — SATURN.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV — URANUS.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. — NEPTUNE.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. — COMETS.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. — SHOOTING STARS.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. — THE STARRY HEAVENS.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. — THE DISTANT SUNS.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. — DOUBLE STARS.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. — THE DISTANCES OF THE STARS.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. — STAR CLUSTERS AND NEBULÆ.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. — THE PHYSICAL NATURE OF THE STARS.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. — THE PRECESSION AND NUTATION OF THE EARTH'S AXIS.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. — THE ABERRATION OF LIGHT.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. — THE ASTRONOMICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HEAT.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. — THE TIDES. [44]
33. 33.APPENDIX. — ASTRONOMICAL QUANTITIES.
34. 34.INDEX. — FOOTNOTES:

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