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Robert S. Ball 6w4a1v
The Story of the Heavens" is the title of our book. We have indeed a wondrous story to narrate; and could we tell it adequately it would prove of boundless interest and of exquisite beauty. It leads to the contemplation of grand phenomena in nature and great achievements of human genius.The history of Astronomy is, in one respect, only too like man.. 5g4o29
Edward Everett 1e524
The undersigned ventures to put forth this report of Mr. Everett's Oration, in connection with a condensed of the Inauguration of the Dudley Observatory, and the Dedication of the New State Geological Hall, at Albany,—in the hope that the demand which has exhausted the newspaper editions, may exhaust this as speedily as possible; not that h..
Robert S. Ball 6w4a1v
Time and Tide: A Romance of the Moon is an astronomical lecture by Robert S. Ball. Preface of the Author:Having been honoured once again with a request that I should lecture before the London Institution, I chose for my subject the Theory of Tidal Evolution. The kind reception which these lectures received has led to their publication in the p..
Alfred Noyes l61a
This volume, while it is complete in itself, is also the first of a trilogy, the scope of which is suggested in the prologue. The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity—a unity of purpose and endeavour—the single torch ing from hand to hand through the centuries; and the great moments of science when, after long labour, the pionee..
Agnes Mary Clerke 32m2l
The chief authority for the Life of Sir William Herschel is Mrs. John Herschel’s “Memoir of Caroline Herschel” (London, 1876). It embodies Caroline’s Journals and Recollections, the accuracy of which is above suspicion. William himself, indeed, referred to her for dates connected with his early life. The collateral sources of information are few an..
Sir Norman Lockyer 5q5q9
The enormous advance which has been recently made in our astronomical knowledge, and in our power of investigating the various bodies which people space, is to a very great extent due to the introduction of methods of work and ideas from other branches of science. Much of the recent progress has been, we may indeed say, entirely dependent upon the ..
S. P. Langley 37364r
The New Astronomy's author S. P. Langley's specifies in his introductory remark as I have written these pages, not for the professional reader, but with the hope of reaching a part of that educated public on whose he is so often dependent for the means of extending the boundaries of knowledge.It is not generally understood that am..
Agnes M. Clerke 625c3j
Of the sixteen chapters constituting this little work, thirteen have been published as a series, begun in Knowledge and continued in Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News, and to the proprietors of those journals, for their courteous permission to reprint them, I offer my sincere thanks. Three additional chapters, equivalent to, though not iden..