# Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers

Author: Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859

Genre: Category: Science - Physics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40240

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## Summary

"Ye sacred Muses, with whose beauty fired, My soul is ravished, and my brain inspired, Whose priest I am, whose holy fillets wear; Would you your poet's first petition hear, Give me the ways of wandering stars to know, The depths of heaven above, and earth below; Teach me the various labors of the moon, And whence proceed th' eclipses of the sun; Why flowing tides prevail upon the main, And in what dark recess they shrink again; What shakes the solid earth, what cause delays The Summer nights, and shortens Winter days." _Dryden's Virgil_

## Chapters

- [LETTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/26/index.md)
- [LETTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/25/index.md)
- [LETTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/23/index.md)
- [LETTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/28/index.md)
- [LETTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/29/index.md)
- [LETTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/24/index.md)
- [LETTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/21/index.md)
- [LETTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/20/index.md)
- [LETTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/12/index.md)
- [LETTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/16/index.md)
- [LETTER XXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/31/index.md)
- [LETTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/6/index.md)
- [LETTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/15/index.md)
- [LETTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/19/index.md)
- [LETTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/18/index.md)
- [LETTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/27/index.md)
- [LETTER XXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/33/index.md)
- [LETTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/3/index.md)
- [LETTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/22/index.md)
- [LETTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/10/index.md)
- [LETTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/8/index.md)
- [LETTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/7/index.md)
- [LETTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/17/index.md)
- [LETTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/11/index.md)
- [LETTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/14/index.md)
- [LETTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/30/index.md)
- [LETTER XXXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/32/index.md)
- [LETTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/13/index.md)
- [LETTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/9/index.md)
- [LETTER 1.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/2/index.md)
- [LETTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/4/index.md)
- [LETTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/5/index.md)
- [LETTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-astronomy-in-which-the-elements-of-the-science-are-f-1220d49b/chapters/1/index.md)