A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century by Agnes M. Clerke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary), 1842-1907.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomy--History.

Astronomy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, [1], 489, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates) : ill.

Edition:

4th ed., rev. and corr.

Place of Publication:

London : A. and C. Black, 1902 (Guildford [England] : Billing and Sons, Ltd.)

Contents:

pt. 1. Progress of astronomy during the first half of the nineteenth century

Pt. 2. Recent progress of astronomy.

Notes:

Title vignette, photograph: Jupiter 1879, Saturn 1885.

Appendix: Chronology, 1774-[1901]--Chemical elements in the sun (Rowland, 1891)--Epochs of sun-spot maximum and minimum from 1610 to 1901.--Movements of sun and stars.--List of great telescopes.--List of observatories employed in the construction of the photographic chart and catalogue of the heavens.

Includes index.

Publisher's advertising: [1] p., 4th count.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

610119587