A Text-book of General Astronomy for Colleges and Scientific Schools

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Ginn, 1888 - Astronomy - 551 pages

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
the Telescope Time
54
the Motion of
117
Distance and Dimensions Mass and Den
172
Comparison of Sunlight
212
ECLIPSES Form and Dimensions of Shadows Lunar
228
CENTRAL FORCES Equable Description of Areas
247
THE PROBLEM OF THREE BODIES Disturbing Forces
268
THE MAJOR PLANETSJupiter Saturn Uranus
348
CHAPTER XVI THE DETERMINATION OF THE SUNS HORIZONTAL PAR
375
their Number Motions and Orbits their
394
Aerolites their Fall and Physical Char
418
their Nature and Number the Constella
447
CHAPTER XX THE LIGht of the StaRS Star Magnitudes and Pho
467
Double and Multiple Stars
493
APPENDIX TABLES OF ASTRONOMICAL DATA 527535
527

THEIR MOTIONS APPARENT
293
THE PLANETS THEMSELVES Methods of determining
316
INDEX 537551
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