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Astronomy of To-day

Astronomy of To-day

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Chapter 1 THE ANCIENT VIEW

Word Count: 561    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

y appearances, and this is perhaps more

mense dome upon the inner surface of which the stars are fixed. Such must needs have been the idea of the universe held by men in the earliest times. In their view the earth was of paramount importance. The su

rushing them out of existence? Fantastic myths sprang from the vain attempts to solve these riddles. The Hindoos, for example, imagined the earth as supported by four elephants which stood upon the back of a gigantic tortoise, which, in its tu

ally became convinced that the earth was spherical in shape, that is to say, round like a ball. In this opinion we now know that they were rig

exceptional notice from the fact that it was everywhere accepted as the true explanation until so late as some four centuries ago. This theory of the universe is known by the name of the Ptolemaic Sy

he planets Mercury and Venus, the Sun, and then the planets Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Beyond thes

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or. Clearly men were flattered by the notion that their earth was the most important body in nature,

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1 Chapter 1 THE ANCIENT VIEW2 Chapter 2 THE MODERN VIEW3 Chapter 3 THE SOLAR SYSTEM4 Chapter 4 CELESTIAL MECHANISM5 Chapter 5 CELESTIAL DISTANCES6 Chapter 6 CELESTIAL MEASUREMENT7 Chapter 7 ECLIPSES AND KINDRED PHENOMENA8 Chapter 8 FAMOUS ECLIPSES OF THE SUN9 Chapter 9 FAMOUS ECLIPSES OF THE MOON10 Chapter 10 THE GROWTH OF OBSERVATION11 Chapter 11 SPECTRUM ANALYSIS12 Chapter 12 THE SUN13 Chapter 13 No.1314 Chapter 14 THE INFERIOR PLANETS15 Chapter 15 THE EARTH16 Chapter 16 THE MOON17 Chapter 17 THE SUPERIOR PLANETS18 Chapter 18 No.1819 Chapter 19 COMETS20 Chapter 20 REMARKABLE COMETS21 Chapter 21 METEORS OR SHOOTING STARS22 Chapter 22 THE STARS23 Chapter 23 No.2324 Chapter 24 SYSTEMS OF STARS25 Chapter 25 THE STELLAR UNIVERSE26 Chapter 26 No.2627 Chapter 27 THE BEGINNING OF THINGS28 Chapter 28 THE END OF THINGS