The Ways of the Planets
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About This Book
Though it has been supplanted by later scientific discovery, this 1912 volume is as much a love letter to the night sky as it is a compendium of the state of astronomical knowledge at the turn of the 20th century, and so it remains a lovely read for those who understand the romance of scientific inquiry. The observational advice of this little book is still entirely useful-its tips for finding Mercury, Mars, and Venus by the naked eye are clear and concise-but even more vitally, its ponderings on the beauty of the planets manage still, a century later, to bring us Earthlings a little closer to...
Chapters (344)(click to expand)
- THE WAYS OF THE PLANETS
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE WAYS OF THE PLANETS I
- ON MAKING ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE PLANETS
- II
- OUR RELATION TO THE PLANETS
- III
- WHAT THE PLANETS ARE, AND WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE
- IV
- THE ORIGIN OF THE PLANETS
- V
- THE SEVEN GREAT PLANETS
- VI
- THE MOVEMENTS OF THE PLANETS
- VII
- HOW THE INFERIOR PLANETS SEEM TO MOVE
- VIII
- HOW THE SUPERIOR PLANETS SEEM TO MOVE
- IX
- THE PATH OF THE PLANETS
- ARIES
- TAURUS
- GEMINI
- CANCER
- LEO
- VIRGO
- LIBRA
- SCORPIO
- SAGITTARIUS
- CAPRICORNUS AND AQUARIUS
- X
- MERCURY
- WHEN AND WHERE TO FIND MERCURY
- DISTANCE AND BRIGHTNESS
- MERCURY’S SIZE AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF IT
- WHAT THE SUN DOES FOR MERCURY
- TRANSITS
- XI
- VENUS
- WHEN AND WHERE TO SEE VENUS
- DISTANCE AND BRILLIANCY
- VENUS’S LIKENESS TO THE EARTH
- ATMOSPHERE, DAY AND NIGHT, AND SEASONS
- TRANSITS
- XII
- MARS
- HOW TO IDENTIFY MARS
- WHEN AND WHERE MARS MAY BE SEEN
- SIZE, ATMOSPHERE, AND TEMPERATURE
- DISTANCE AND BRILLIANCY
- DAY AND NIGHT, AND SEASONS
- SURFACE ASPECTS OF MARS
- THE SATELLITES OF MARS
- XIII
- JUPITER
- JUPITER’S PLACE IN THE SKY
- DISTANCE, LIGHT, AND HEAT
- DAY AND NIGHT, SEASONS, AND ATMOSPHERE
- SURFACE FEATURES
- JUPITER’S SYSTEM OF SATELLITES
- XIV
- SATURN
- AROUND ONE CIRCUIT OF THE SKIES WITH SATURN
- DISTANCE AND SIZE
- SURFACE ASPECTS AND CONSTITUTION
- DAY AND NIGHT
- THE RINGS AND MOONS OF SATURN
- SEASONS
- XV
- URANUS
- XVI
- NEPTUNE
- XVII
- THE LITTLE PLANETS, OR THE ASTEROIDS
- XVIII
- CONCLUSION
- SYMBOLS USED IN ALMANACS
- INDEX
- FOOTNOTES:
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