A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
Fourth Edition
A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century, first published in 1885 and here in the fourth edition of 1902, made Agnes M. Clerke the leading historian of astronomy of her time. Writing for readers without mathematics, she divides the century at 1850: the first part covers William Herschel's survey of the heavens, the progress of sidereal astronomy, the discovery of Neptune and the state of solar and planetary knowledge; the second traces the revolution brought by spectrum analysis and photography, the new physics of the sun, the study of comets, meteors and nebulae, stellar distances and motions, and the great telescopes. Appendices give a chronology, tables of sunspot cycles and a list of instruments. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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