The Story of the Heavens

The Story of the Heavens

Robert Stawell Ball, irish astronomer who founded the screw theory (1841-1913)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE TO ORIGINAL EDITION

-03- NOTE TO THIS EDITION

-04- THE STORY OF THE HEAVENS

-05- THE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY

-06- THE SUN

-07- THE MOON

-08- THE SOLAR SYSTEM

-09- THE LAW OF GRAVITATION

-10- THE PLANET OF ROMANCE

-11- MERCURY

-12- VENUS

-13- THE EARTH

-14- MARS

-15- THE MINOR PLANETS

-16- JUPITER

-17- SATURN

-18- URANUS

-19- NEPTUNE

-20- COMETS

-21- SHOOTING STARS

-22- THE STARRY HEAVENS

-23- THE DISTANT SUNS

-24- DOUBLE STARS

-25- THE DISTANCES OF THE STARS

-26- STAR CLUSTERS AND NEBULÆ

-27- THE PHYSICAL NATURE OF THE STARS

-28- THE PRECESSION AND NUTATION OF THE EARTH'S AXIS

-29- THE ABERRATION OF LIGHT

-30- THE ASTRONOMICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HEAT

-31- THE TIDES

-32- APPENDIX. ASTRONOMICAL QUANTITIES

-33- FOOTNOTES