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The orbs around us: a series of familiar essays on the moon and planets, meteors and comets, the sun and coloured pairs of suns. / By Richard A. Proctor ...
LIBRA 523.2 P944a
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Solar system.
- Astronomy.
- Physical Description:
- vii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 340 pages : frontispiece (chart) ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Longmans, Green, and Co.; New York : Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, 1872.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The gamut of light.
- Other habitable worlds.
- Other inhabited worlds.
- The Rosse telescope set to new work.
- The planet of love.
- The planet of war.
- A miniature sun.
- Shooting stars, meteors, and aerolites.
- Meteors and meteor systems.
- Professor Tyndall's theory of comets.
- Comets and comet's tails.
- The sun's corona.
- What, then is the corona?
- The corona as a phenomenon of eruption.
- Colours of the double stars.
- OCLC:
- 5573137
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