Astronomy
5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM—TYCHO BRAHE—KEPLER 6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE—NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS, ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON—LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION 8. NEWTON’S SUCCESSORS—HALLEY, EULER, LAGRANGE, LAPLACE, ETC. 9. DISCOVERY OF NEW PLANETS—HERSCHEL, PIAZZ...
We have seen how the theory of the solar system was slowly developed by the constant efforts of the human mind to find out what are the rules of cause and effect by which our co...
6. Chapter 6During the period of the intellectual and aesthetic revival, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, the “spirit of the age” was fostered by the invention of printing, by the...
5. Chapter 5The growth of intelligence in the human race has its counterpart in that of the individual, especially in the earliest stages. Intellectual activity and the development of reaso...
7. Chapter 7Having now traced the progress of physical astronomy up to the time when very striking proofs of the universality of the law of gravitation convinced the most sceptical, it must...
9. Chapter 9[3] Taking the velocity of light at 186,000 miles a second, and the earth’s mean distance at 93,000,000 miles, 1 light-year=5,865,696,000,000 miles or 63,072 astronomical units;...
4. Chapter 4An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by recognising the different points of vie...
2. Chapter 25. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM—TYCHO BRAHE—KEPLER 6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE—NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS, ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON—LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION 8. NE...
1. Chapter 13. Chapter 3