Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I THE TELESCOPE, ITS INVENTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS POWERS
- CHAPTER II RELATIVE MERITS OF LARGE AND SMALL TELESCOPES
- CHAPTER III NOTES ON TELESCOPES AND THEIR ACCESSORIES
- CHAPTER IV NOTES ON TELESCOPIC WORK
- CHAPTER V THE SUN
- CHAPTER VI THE MOON
- CHAPTER VII MERCURY
- CHAPTER VIII VENUS
- CHAPTER IX MARS
- CHAPTER X THE PLANETOIDS
- CHAPTER XI JUPITER
- CHAPTER XII SATURN
- CHAPTER XIII URANUS AND NEPTUNE
- CHAPTER XIV COMETS AND COMET-SEEKING
- CHAPTER XV METEORS AND METEORIC OBSERVATIONS
- CHAPTER XVI THE STARS
- CHAPTER XVII NEBULÆ AND CLUSTERS OF STARS
- NOTES AND ADDITIONS
- INDEX
- Plate section
NOTES AND ADDITIONS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I THE TELESCOPE, ITS INVENTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS POWERS
- CHAPTER II RELATIVE MERITS OF LARGE AND SMALL TELESCOPES
- CHAPTER III NOTES ON TELESCOPES AND THEIR ACCESSORIES
- CHAPTER IV NOTES ON TELESCOPIC WORK
- CHAPTER V THE SUN
- CHAPTER VI THE MOON
- CHAPTER VII MERCURY
- CHAPTER VIII VENUS
- CHAPTER IX MARS
- CHAPTER X THE PLANETOIDS
- CHAPTER XI JUPITER
- CHAPTER XII SATURN
- CHAPTER XIII URANUS AND NEPTUNE
- CHAPTER XIV COMETS AND COMET-SEEKING
- CHAPTER XV METEORS AND METEORIC OBSERVATIONS
- CHAPTER XVI THE STARS
- CHAPTER XVII NEBULÆ AND CLUSTERS OF STARS
- NOTES AND ADDITIONS
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings , pp. 347 - 352Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1891