Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science

by Simon Newcomb

EN·~9 hours·26 chapters

Chapters

26 total

SIDE-LIGHTS ON ASTRONOMY - AND KINDRED FIELDS OF POPULAR SCIENCE

0:04

ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES

0:01

BY - SIMON NEWCOMB

0:58

ILLUSTRATIONS

0:49

PREFACE

1:43

I. THE UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF ASTRONOMY

28:21

II. THE NEW PROBLEMS OF THE UNIVERSE

22:12

III. THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE

51:01

IV. THE EXTENT OF THE UNIVERSE

27:05

V. MAKING AND USING A TELESCOPE

47:41

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Astronomy

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~9 hours (565K characters)

Release date

2003-05-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4065

Subjects

Flying-machines Astronomy Compass Hyperspace Learning and scholarship Rain-making QB

About the author

Simon Newcomb

1835–1909

A brilliant astronomer and mathematician, he helped make the motions of the planets and Moon far more precise and became one of the leading scientific figures of his era. His writing brought big ideas in astronomy to general readers as well as specialists.

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