The Ways of the Planets

About this eBook

Author

Martin, Martha Evans, -1925

Credits

Produced by Shaun Pinder, Thiers Halliwell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

QB: Science: Astronomy

Subject

Planets

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 51284

Release Date

February 22, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE WAYS OF THE PLANETS
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.I — ON MAKING ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE PLANETS
5. 5.II — OUR RELATION TO THE PLANETS
6. 6.III — WHAT THE PLANETS ARE, AND WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE
7. 7.IV — THE ORIGIN OF THE PLANETS
8. 8.V — THE SEVEN GREAT PLANETS
9. 9.VI — THE MOVEMENTS OF THE PLANETS
10. 10.VII — HOW THE INFERIOR PLANETS SEEM TO MOVE
11. 11.VIII — HOW THE SUPERIOR PLANETS SEEM TO MOVE
12. 12.IX — THE PATH OF THE PLANETS — ARIES — TAURUS — GEMINI — CANCER — LEO — VIRGO — LIBRA — SCORPIO — SAGITTARIUS — CAPRICORNUS AND AQUARIUS
13. 13.X — MERCURY — WHEN AND WHERE TO FIND MERCURY — DISTANCE AND BRIGHTNESS — MERCURY’S SIZE AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF IT — WHAT THE SUN DOES FOR MERCURY — TRANSITS
14. 14.XI — VENUS — WHEN AND WHERE TO SEE VENUS — DISTANCE AND BRILLIANCY — VENUS’S LIKENESS TO THE EARTH — ATMOSPHERE, DAY AND NIGHT, AND SEASONS — TRANSITS
15. 15.XII — MARS — HOW TO IDENTIFY MARS — WHEN AND WHERE MARS MAY BE SEEN — SIZE, ATMOSPHERE, AND TEMPERATURE — DISTANCE AND BRILLIANCY — DAY AND NIGHT, AND SEASONS — SURFACE ASPECTS OF MARS — THE SATELLITES OF MARS
16. 16.XIII — JUPITER — JUPITER’S PLACE IN THE SKY — DISTANCE, LIGHT, AND HEAT — DAY AND NIGHT, SEASONS, AND ATMOSPHERE — SURFACE FEATURES — JUPITER’S SYSTEM OF SATELLITES
17. 17.XIV — SATURN — AROUND ONE CIRCUIT OF THE SKIES WITH SATURN — DISTANCE AND SIZE — SURFACE ASPECTS AND CONSTITUTION — DAY AND NIGHT — THE RINGS AND MOONS OF SATURN — SEASONS
18. 18.XV — URANUS
19. 19.XVI — NEPTUNE
20. 20.XVII — THE LITTLE PLANETS, OR THE ASTEROIDS
21. 21.XVIII — CONCLUSION
22. 22.SYMBOLS USED IN ALMANACS
23. 23.INDEX — FOOTNOTES:

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