Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
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Chapters (28)
- SIDE-LIGHTS ON ASTRONOMY
- AND KINDRED FIELDS OF POPULAR SCIENCE
- ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES
- SIMON NEWCOMB
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- I THE UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF ASTRONOMY
- II THE NEW PROBLEMS OF THE UNIVERSE
- III THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
- IV THE EXTENT OF THE UNIVERSE
- V MAKING AND USING A TELESCOPE
- VI WHAT THE ASTRONOMERS ARE DOING
- VII LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
- VIII HOW THE PLANETS ARE WEIGHED
- IX THE MARINER'S COMPASS
- X THE FAIRYLAND OF GEOMETRY
- XI THE ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
- XII CAN WE MAKE IT RAIN?
- XIII THE ASTRONOMICAL EPHEMERIS AND THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC
- XIV THE WORLD'S DEBT TO ASTRONOMY
- XV AN ASTRONOMICAL FRIENDSHIP
- XVI THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATOR
- XVII THE EVOLUTION OF ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE
- XVIII ASPECTS OF AMERICAN ASTRONOMY
- XIX THE UNIVERSE AS AN ORGANISM
- XX THE RELATION OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD TO SOCIAL PROGRESS
- XXI THE OUTLOOK FOR THE FLYING-MACHINE
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