The Elements of Descriptive Astronomy

Автор: E.O. Tancock
Издательство: Oxford At The Clarendon Press
Страниц: 159
Год: 1919
Размер: 4,37 МБ

I HAVE endeavoured in this book to give a simple description of the heavenly bodies and their motions in a form which should appeal to those who know little or nothing of the subject. It has been my aim to strike a mean between the larger and more difficult technical books and the extremely simple ones which weary us with accounts of children walking round tables and oranges. The book is the outcome of the notes which I have used in teaching Astronomy to Junior Forms in a Public School, where experience has shown me that many boys will follow up the subject, read for themselves, and enjoy practical work, when once they have been given a start.