A Century's Progress in Astronomy

Автор: Hector Macpherson, Jun.
Издательство: William Blackwood And Sons
Страниц: 246
Год: 1906
Размер: 9,63 МБ

THE present volume originated in a desire to present, in small compass, a record of the marvellous progress in astronomy during the past hundred years. Indebtedness should be acknowledged to the valuable works of Professor Newcomb, Professor Schiaparelli, Professor Lowell, Professor Young, Sir Robert Ball, Mr Gore, M. Flammarion, and Miss Clerke, who, as the historian of modern astronomy, occupies a place at once authoritative and unique.

Portions of Chapters II. and XII. have already appeared in the form of an article on the Construction of the Heavens, contributed by the writer to the American periodical, 'Popular Astronomy. '

BALERNO, MID-LOTHIAN, October 1906.