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A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
Agnes M. Clerke · Public domain text
219,194 words · about 15 h 21 min to read
Text only · 8 illustrations omitted. Illustrated source.
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About this book
- Author
- Agnes M. Clerke (1842–1907)
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Astronomy › History › 19th century
- Length
- 219,194 words · about 15 h 21 min
- Sections
- 44 reader sections · Table of contents
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #28247
Contents (44)
- Opening about 6 min
- Part I under 1 min
- I. FOUNDATION OF SIDEREAL ASTRONOMY under 1 min
- II. PROGRESS OF SIDEREAL ASTRONOMY under 1 min
- III. PROGRESS OF KNOWLEDGE REGARDING THE SUN under 1 min
- IV. PLANETARY DISCOVERIES under 1 min
- V. COMETS under 1 min
- VI. INSTRUMENTAL ADVANCES under 1 min
- Part II under 1 min
- I. FOUNDATION OF ASTRONOMICAL PHYSICS under 1 min
- II. SOLAR OBSERVATIONS AND THEORIES under 1 min
- III. RECENT SOLAR ECLIPSES under 1 min
- IV. SOLAR SPECTROSCOPY under 1 min
- V. TEMPERATURE OF THE SUN under 1 min
- VI. THE SUN'S DISTANCE under 1 min
- VII. PLANETS AND SATELLITES under 1 min
- VIII. PLANETS AND SATELLITES--(continued) under 1 min
- IX. THEORIES OF PLANETARY EVOLUTION under 1 min
- X. RECENT COMETS under 1 min
- XI. RECENT COMETS--(continued) under 1 min
- XII. STARS AND NEBULAE under 1 min
- XIII. METHODS OF RESEARCH under 1 min
- Appendix about 13 min
- Part I under 1 min
- Chapter I about 34 min
- Chapter II about 46 min
- Chapter III about 37 min
- Chapter IV about 33 min
- Chapter V about 38 min
- Chapter VI about 30 min
- Chapter I about 35 min
- Chapter II about 44 min
- Chapter III about 52 min
- Chapter IV about 41 min
- Chapter V about 20 min
- Chapter VI about 29 min
- Chapter VII about 59 min
- Chapter VIII about 1 h 4 min
- Chapter IX about 28 min
- Chapter X about 41 min
- Chapter XI about 51 min
- Chapter XII about 1 h 47 min
- Chapter XIII about 27 min
- Appendix about 1 h 22 min
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