Stories of the Great Astronomers: Conversations with a Child

Edward Singleton Holden

D. Appleton, 1901 - Astronomers - 265 pages

Contents

• Comet medal of 1680: 27
• Orbit of a planet: 28
• Orbits of the planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars: 29
• Orbits of the planets Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune: 30
• Portrait of Galileo: 31
• A reading glass: 32
• The course of the Milky: 33
• The half moon seen in a field glass: 34
• 135 137: 64
• Photograph of the moon made at the Lick Observatory 36 Photograph of the moon made at the Lick Observatory 37 Photograph of the moon made ...: 91
• Model of a lunar mountain: 94
• Photograph of the moon made at the Lick Observatory: 95
• How a lens forms an image 41 How a lens forms an image: 96
• Object glass of a modern telescope: 98
• Two kinds of eyepieces: 99
• The 12inch telescope of the Lick Observatory: 100
• The 15inch telescope of the Harvard College Observatory: 101
• A telescope 200 feet long made about A D 1670: 102
• The 26inch telescope of the Naval Observatory in Washington: 103
• Eyeend of the 36inch telescope of the Lick Observa: 104
• The 40inch telescope of the University of Chicago: 105
• Convex lenses: 106
• How a burning glass concentrates rays: 107
• A common spyglass: 108
• Phases of the moon: 109
• A leaf from Galileos notebook showing the discovery of the satellites of Jupiter January 1610: 113
• A leaf from Galileos notebook showing spots on the sun May 1612: 116
• Sun spot photographed at the Lick Observatory: 118
• Sun spot photographed at the Lick Observatory: 120
• Drawings of Mars made at the Lick Observatory: 121
• Drawing of Jupiter made at the Lick Observatory 66 Drawing of Saturn made at the Harvard College Observ atory: 124
• Photograph of a small part of the Milky Way: 125
• Portrait of Christian Huyghens: 132
• One of the long telescopes of the seventeenth century 70 Drawing of Saturn made at the Lick Observatory 71 Three views of the planet Saturn: 139
• Shapes of the planet Saturn as seen by an observer on the earth at different times: 141
• A vibrating rod: 143
• Two interfering waves: 145
• The law of the inverse square of the distance illustrated: 152
• The law of the inverse square of the distance illustrated: 153
• Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton: 156
• Diagram to illustrate decrease of attraction with the square of the distance: 159
• The leaning tower of Pisa: 162
• Diagram of the moons orbit: 164
• View of a large reflecting telescope in its dome Lick Observatory: 182
• View of a large refracting telescope in its dome Lick Observatory: 183
• A sunbeam in a darkened room: 185
• A glass prism: 186
• A prism forming a solar spectrum in a darkened room: 187
• Newtons experiment on the solar spectrum: 189
• A double star: 212
• The same part of the heavens photographed with: 224
• PIAZZI 17461826 OLBERS 17581840 ADAMS: 232
• Orbits of some of the major planets: 236
• Diagramthe displacement of stars caused by parallax: 245
• Portrait of Benjamin Apthorp Gould: 251

Bibliographic information

• Title: Stories of the Great Astronomers: Conversations with a Child; Appleton's home reading books. Division I. Natural history; Appleton's home reading books.[Division I. Natural history]
• Author: Edward Singleton Holden
• Publisher: D. Appleton, 1901
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Apr 24, 2008
• Length: 265 pages