Side lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science

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