ASTRONOMY The Science of the Heavenly Bodies

Автор: David Todd
Издательство: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Страниц: 384
Размер: 18,6 МБ

SIR WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON, the eminent mathematician of Dublin, has, of all writers ancient and modern, most fittingly characterized the ideal science of astronomy as man's golden chain connecting the heavens to the earth, by which we "learn the language and interpret the oracles of the universe."

The oldest of the sciences, astronomy is also the broadest in its relations to human knowledge and the interests of mankind...