What We Know About the Stars (Classic Reprint)
Title | What We Know About the Stars (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | Abraham van Doren Honeyman |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 2016-08-19 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9781333271817 |
Excerpt from What We Know About the Stars Of course we do not mean to say that astron omy is so exact a science that all its problems are as demonstrable as a problem in Euclid. There are mere guesses connected with it, but these only surround its truths with a halo of romance. So far as real problems are solved it is an exact science. That the astronomers are enabled to cal culate, hundreds of years in advance, the precise moment of the transit of Venus across the Sun, or of an eclipse of the sun or moon, or when a cer tain comet is due to appear, only proves that facts have been acquired which are exact, and that the machinery of the heavens does not run on by chance but under fixed laws. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
How to Identify the Stars
Title | How to Identify the Stars PDF eBook |
Author | Willis Isbister Milham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Stars |
ISBN |
Observations of Double Stars [1892-1919]
Title | Observations of Double Stars [1892-1919] PDF eBook |
Author | George Cary Comstock |
Publisher | |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | Double stars |
ISBN |
The Heavens
Title | The Heavens PDF eBook |
Author | James Coffee Harris |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2017-07-18 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780282373276 |
Excerpt from The Heavens: Astronomy for Children Children wonder what the stars are. A long time ago grown people did not know, but now we do know what the stars are. We know what they. Are made of. We know how big they are. We know which way they are traveling. We know how fast they go. We know which stars are young and which sta1s are old. We know that the stars are made of the same things that the earth is. We know that there is iron in some of the stars. We know that there are gases in all the stars. We know that there are the same things in the stars as is in the air and in the water and other things on the earth. We know that the stars are made of the same things that the water is made of and that the rocks are made of. The earth is made of 92 different kinds of matter, different kinds of atoms. We have found nearly all of these 92 different kinds of matte1 in the stars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1828 (Classic Reprint)
Title | The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1828 (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 1834 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Excerpt from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1828 A few Remarks on the class Mollusca in Dr fleming's Work on British Animals; with Descriptions of some new Species. By george johnston, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Communicated by the Author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Essence of Astronomy
Title | The Essence of Astronomy PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Whitman Putnam |
Publisher | |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Astronomy |
ISBN |
Stories of the Universe
Title | Stories of the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | George F. Chambers |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2018-03-18 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780364907467 |
Excerpt from Stories of the Universe: The Stars When invited to write this little book, I was asked so to shape it that it should be a concise but readable out line of that branch of knowledge which one associates with the expression the Starry Heavens liberally inter preted. I was to cater for those rapidly growing thou sands of men and women Of all ranks who are manifesting in these closing years Of the nineteenth century in so many ways and in so many places an interest in the facts and truths of Nature and Physical Science. The task thus imposed upon me was a very congenial one, and I gladly undertook it. How far I have succeeded in pre senting my facts in a bright and cheery spirit others must determine. But I would ask it to be understood thati have dealt with facts rather than fancies. There are too many of the former available for a writer on astronomy to make it worth while to waste space in dealing with the latter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.