Astronomy

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Aeronautics & Astronautics (9)
Astrophysics & Space Science (42)
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Solar System (15)

e-books in this category

A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy
by George F. Chambers - Oxford At The Clarendon Press , 1889
The work covers: the planets of our solar system; eclipses; gravity and tides; phenomena including aberration and refraction; comets; chronological astronomy; stars; astronomical instruments; the history of astronomy; and meteoric astronomy.
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A Review of the Universe: Structures, Evolutions, Observations, and Theories
- universe-review.ca , 2009
This website surveys the entire extent of the universe touching upon phenomenon from the largest to the smallest size and covering the entire cosmic interval. It presents observations as well as the theories which explains the phenomena.
(3770 views)

A Text-book of Astronomy
by George C. Comstock - D. Appleton and company , 1901
The author concentrates attention upon those parts of the subject that possess special educational value. Matter which permits of experimental treatment with simple apparatus is of peculiar value and is given a prominence in the text.
(1711 views)

An Introduction to Astronomy
by Forest Ray Moulton - The MacMillan Company , 1916
It has been assumed that the reader has an interest in the wonderful universe which surrounds him, and that he has arrived at such a stage of intellectual development that he demands the reasons for whatever conclusions he is asked to accept.
(1638 views)

Astronomical Discovery
by Herbert Hall Turner - E. Arnold , 1904
The aim of the following pages is to illustrate the variety in character of astronomical discoveries. An attempt has indeed been made to arrange the examples into a rough sequence according to the amount of chance associated with the discovery.
(1348 views)

Astronomical Image and Data Analysis
by J.-L. Starck, F. Murtagh - Springer , 2006
The book explains how to handle real problems in astronomical data analysis using a modern arsenal of powerful techniques. It treats the methods of image, signal, and data processing that are proving to be both effective and widely relevant.
(3385 views)

Astronomy for Amateurs
by Camille Flammarion - D. Appleton and Company , 1910
The Science of Astronomy is sublime and beautiful. It gives us wings, and bears us through Infinitude. In these ethereal regions all is pure, luminous, and splendid. Dreams of the Ideal, even of the Inaccessible, weave their subtle spells upon us.
(1548 views)

Astronomy of To-day
by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage - Seeley and co. , 1910
The book gives an account of the science of Astronomy, as it was known in 1910, in a manner acceptable to the general reader. The author takes the theories of Astronomy out of those mathematical forms, and presents them in the ordinary language.
(1330 views)

Elementary Mathematical Astronomy
by C. Barlow, G. Bryan - University Correspondence College Press , 1893
The book fills the gap between the many excellent popular and non-mathematical works on Astronomy, and the standard treatises on the subject, which involve high mathematics. The rudimentary knowledge of Geometry, Algebra, and Trigonometry is assumed.
(1579 views)

Frequently Asked Questions about Calendars
by Claus Tøndering , 2008
An overview of the Christian, Hebrew, Persian, and Islamic calendars in common use. It gives a historical background for the Christian calendar, plus an overview of the French Revolutionary calendar, the Maya calendar, and the Chinese calendar.
(3199 views)

General Astronomy
by Harold Spencer Jones - Edward Arnold and Company , 1924
The book will serve to give the reader a sufficiently complete view of the present state of Astronomy. Mathematics has been almost entirely excluded in order that the volume may appeal to the amateur, no less than the student.
(1453 views)

General Astronomy
- Wikibooks , 2009
This book introduces the advanced secondary or beginning university student to the process that revealed the rich tapestry of the universe to humanity, presenting astronomy not only as a field of knowledge, but also as a human endeavor in science.
(1462 views)

Habitable Planets for Man
by Stephen H. Dole - RAND Corporation , 1964
The book examines and estimates the probabilities of finding planets habitable to man and where they might be found. The author presents in detail the characteristics of a planet that can provide an acceptable environment for humankind.
(1398 views)

History of Astronomy
by George Forbes , 1909
This book starts with the ancient Chinese, the Chaldeans, Greeks, and Arabs, then Copernicus and others of the Renaissance, and lastly the 18th and 19th centuries. Topics included are the telescope, the sun, moon, planets and the stars.
(308 views)

Pioneers of Science
by Oliver Lodge - Macmillan and co , 1905
A collection of 28 lectures on the history and progress of astronomy: Copernicus and the motion of the Earth; Tycho Brahe and his observatory; Kepler and the laws of planetary motion; Galileo and the invention of the telescope; Isaac Newton; etc.
(262 views)

Practical Astronomy
by George L. Hosmer - John Wiley and Sons Inc. , 1925
The text is adapted to the needs of civil-engineering students. The text deals chiefly with the class of observations which can be made with surveying instruments, the methods applicable to astronomical and geodetic instruments being treated briefly.
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Practical Astronomy
by P. S. Michie, F. S. Harlow - John Wiley & Sons , 1893
This volume is designed especially for the use of the cadets of the U. S. Military Academy, as a supplement to the course in General Astronomy. It is therefore limited to that branch of Practical Astronomy which relates to Field Work.
(93 views)

Primer Of Celestial Navigation
by John Favill - Cornell Maritime Press , 1944
Astronomy, time, the astronomical triangle, trigonometry and reliable procedures for position finding are explained. The Primer takes into account all the stumbling blocks, and moves progressively from the simple fundamentals to the complex problems.
(1351 views)

Recreations in Astronomy
by Henry White Warren - Project Gutenberg
This book has been written not only to reveal some of the highest achievements of the human mind, but also to let the heavens declare the glory of the Divine Mind. In the author's judgment, there is no gulf that separates science and religion.
(1369 views)

Short History of Astronomy
by Arthur Berry - John Murray , 1898
The author gives an outline of the history of astronomy from the earliest historical times to the nineteenth century, and presents it in a form which is intelligible to a reader who has no special knowledge of either astronomy or mathematics.
(1579 views)

Spherical Astronomy
by F. Brünnow - Van Nostrand , 1865
The celestial sphere and its diurnal motion; On the changes of the fundamental planes to which the places of the stars are referred; Corrections of the observations arising from the position of the observer on the surface of the Earth; and more.
(1531 views)

Star-Gazer's Hand-Book
by Henry William Elson - Sturgis & Walton , 1910
In the first part the author gives the main astronomical facts according to the latest discoveries [1910], but makes no pretense of entering into higher mathematical Astronomy. The second part of the book treats the Constellations.
(1530 views)

The Astrobiology Primer: An Outline of General Knowledge
by Lucas J. Mix, at al. - arXiv , 2006
Astrobiology aims to understand the fundamental nature of life on earth and the possibility of life elsewhere. This text has been created as a reference tool for those who are interested in this interdisciplinary field of astrobiology.
(344 views)

The Astronomy of the Bible
by E. Walter Maunder - Richard Clay & Sons , 1908
Why should an astronomer write a commentary on the Bible? Because commentators are not astronomers, and therefore either pass over the astronomical allusions of Scripture in silence, or else annotate them in a way which leaves much to be desired.
(1459 views)