Side lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Fiction & Literature, Classics

• Author: Simon Newcomb
• ISBN: 1230000261724
• Publisher: The Perfect Library
• Publication: August 20, 2014
• Language: English

Side lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
Simon Newcomb, astronomer and mathematician (1835-1909)

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Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- PREFACE
-03- THE UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF ASTRONOMY
-04- THE NEW PROBLEMS OF THE UNIVERSE
-05- THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
-06- THE EXTENT OF THE UNIVERSE
-07- MAKING AND USING A TELESCOPE
-08- WHAT THE ASTRONOMERS ARE DOING
-09- LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
-10- HOW THE PLANETS ARE WEIGHED
-11- THE MARINER'S COMPASS
-12- THE FAIRYLAND OF GEOMETRY
-13- THE ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
-14- CAN WE MAKE IT RAIN
-15- THE ASTRONOMICAL EPHEMERIS AND THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC
-16- THE WORLD'S DEBT TO ASTRONOMY
-17- AN ASTRONOMICAL FRIENDSHIP
-18- THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATOR
-19- THE EVOLUTION OF ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE
-20- ASPECTS OF AMERICAN ASTRONOMY
-21- THE UNIVERSE AS AN ORGANISM
-22- THE RELATION OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD TO SOCIAL PROGRESS
-23- THE OUTLOOK FOR THE FLYING MACHINE