A History of Astronomy (Routledge Revivals)

Bryant, Walter

1. Early Notions 2. He Eastern Nations of Antiquity 3. The Greeks 4. The Arabs 5. The Revival – Copernicus – Tycho Brahe 6. Kepler – Galileo 7. Newton 8. Newton’s Successors: Laplace 9. Flamsteed – Halley – Bradley – Herschel 10. The Early Nineteenth Century – Neptune 11. Herschel – Bessel – Struve 12. Comets 13. The Sun – Eclipses – Parallax 14. General Astronomy and Celestial Mechanics 15. Observations and Instruments 16. Adjustment of Observations. Personal Errors 17. The Sun 18. Solar Spectroscopy 19. Solar Eclipses – Spectroscopy 20. The Moon 21. The Earth 22. The Interior Planets 23. Mars 24. Minor Planets 25. The Major Planets 26. The Solar System 27. Comets, Meteors, Zodiacal Light 28. The Stars – Catalogues – Proper Motion – Parallax – Magnitude 29. Double Stars 30. Variable Stars 31. Clusters – Nebulae – Milky Way 32. Stellar Spectroscopy 33. Conclusion