Astronomy Books

Lectures on Stellar Statistics

C. V. L. Charlier

Our knowledge of the stars is based on their apparent attributes, obtained from the astronomical observations. The object of astronomy is to deduce herefrom the real or absolute attributes of the star..

The dawn of astronomy

Sir Norman Lockyer

Dr. Wallis Budge and Captain Lyons, R.E., have rendered continual help while this book has been in progress, and I cannot sufficiently thank them; to the first-named I am especially indebted for looki..

The New Astronomy

S. P. Langley

The sun, as we shall learn later, is a star, and not a particularly large star. It is, as has been said, “only a private in the host of heaven,” but it is one of that host; it is one of those glitteri..

Modern cosmogonies

Agnes M. Clerke

Many difficulties and perplexities are encountered in the attempt to get back towards the beginning of things. Some of the old tracks, too, have been torn up by the pioneers of twentieth century scien..

Dante and the early astronomers

Mary Acworth Orr

The story of this development is of enthralling interest, and after the system had been completed by one of the greatest mathematicians the world has seen, its later history reads like a romance. Thou..

Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

William Whewell

Nature acts by general laws; that is, the occurrences of the world in which we find ourselves, result from causes which operate according to fixed and constant rules. The succession of days, and seaso..

The Moon - A Popular Treatise

Garrett Putman Serviss

One serene evening, when the full moon, rising slowly above the tree tops, began to spread over the landscape that peculiar radiance which, by half revealing and half concealing, by softening all outl..

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

Bernard de Fontenelle

We may find an eulogium on our author in l'Historie de l'Académie des Sciences for 1757, in the Mémoires de l'Académie des Belles-Lettres, and in a work written entirely on the subject, published by T..