Astronomy Books

The World of Flying Saucers

Donald H. Menzel

At a conference with Air Force officials in Washington in April 1952, he presented his idea that planetary mirages, sundogs, reflections, and other astronomical, atmospheric, and optical phenomena pro..

Comet Lore - Halley's Comet in History and Astronomy

Edwin Emerson

The great divines of the Church of England,—from Cranmer, Bishop Latimer, Archbishops Spottiswoode and Bramhall, Bishop Jeremy Taylor, down to our own times, clearly preached the doctrine that Comets ..

The Book of Stars

Archie Frederick Collins

The stars are the friends of everyone who knows them. If you have never stood out in the open and watched the stars on a clear night, you have missed the most wonderful sight to be seen from this litt..

A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanisms of the Heavens

Mary Somerville

Science, regarded as the pursuit of truth, which can only be attained by patient and unprejudiced investigation, wherein nothing is too great to be attempted, nothing so minute as to be justly disrega..

Hints to Travellers, Scientific and General, Vol. 2

Royal Geographical Society

Thermometers are either direct-reading or self-registering. The former are used for obtaining the temperature at any given moment, the latter for ascertaining the highest or the lowest temperature in ..

The Wright Brothers

Fred C. Kelly

THE aim in this book has been to satisfy the curiosity of the average, non-technical reader regarding the work of the Wright Brothers, and to do so as simply as possible. But one name naturally and ob..