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A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century

Science & Math

Clerke, Agnes M.

Astronomy & Space Science

Scholarly Press

A Popular History Of Astronomy During The Nineteenth Century (1893)

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Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Kessinger Publishing

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in which his mind was moving by the remark that this self-luminous matter seemed " more fit to produce a star by its condensation, than to depend on the star for its existence." l This was not a novel idea. Tycho Brahe had tried to explain the blaze of the star of 1572 as due to a sudden concentration of nebulous material in the Milky Way, even pointing out the space left dark and void by the withdrawal of the luminous stuff; and Kepler, theorising on a similar stellar apparition in 1604, followed nearly in the same track. But under Herschel's treatment the nebular origin of stars first acquired the consistency of a formal theory. He meditated upon it long and earnestly, and in two elaborate treatises, published respectively in 1811 and 1814, he at length set forth the arguments in its favour. These rested entirely upon the " principle of continuity." Between the successive classes of his progressive assortment of objects, there was, as he said, " perhaps not so much difference as would be in an annual description of the human figure, were it given from the birth of a child till he comes to be a man in his prime."2 From diffused nebulosity, barely visible in the most powerful light-gathering instruments, but which he estimated to cover nearly 152 square degrees of the heavens,3 to planetary nebulae, supposed to be already centrally solid, instances were alleged by him of every stage and phase of condensation. The validity of his reasoning, however, was evidently impaired by his confessed inability to distinguish between the dim rays of remote clusters and the milky light of true gaseous nebulae. It may be said that such speculations are futile in themselves, and necessarily barren of results. But they gratify an inherent tendency of the human mind, and, if pursued in a becom...

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century

Sattre Pr

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The author received a world-wide reputation on the appearance of this exhaustive treatise on astronomy in 1885.

Echo Library

Excerpt from A Popular History of Astronomy: During the Nineteenth Century The progress of astronomy during the last hundred years has been rapid and extraordinary. In its distinctive features, moreover, the nature of that progress has been such as to lend itself with facility to untechnical treatment. To this circumstance the present volume owes its origin. It embodies an attempt to enable the ordinary reader to follow, with intelligent interest, the course of modern astronomical inquiries, and to realize (so far as it can at present be realized) the full effect of the comprehensive change in the whole aspect, purposes, and methods of celestial science introduced by the momentous discovery of spectrum analysis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century

A Popular History Of Astronomy During The Nineteenth Century (1893)

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century

A Popular History Of Astronomy During The Nineteenth Century (1893)

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century

A Popular History of Astronomy: During the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint)