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Excerpt from The Sun: Ruler, Fire, Light, and Life of the Planetary SystemWhen I had completed my treatise on Saturn and its System, I formed the design of preparing a separate treatise on each of the planets Mars and Jupiter, and then another and larger treatise on the Sun. Circum stances, which it is needless to particularise, prevented me from carrying out this design at that time, and indeed threatened to withdraw my attention altogether f...

Excerpt from Half-Hours With the Stars: A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations, Showing in 12 Maps, the Position of the Principal Star-Groups Night After Night Throughout the YearIt is necessary, perhaps, to point out that this work is intended as a companion to a series of star-charts, not as in itself a star-atlas. The possessor Of a good star-atlas will find that this work serves the purpose of a key to the atlas, and...

Excerpt from Myths and Marvels of AstronomyThe chief charm of Astronomy, with many, does not reside in the wonders revealed to us by the science.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 form...

The Great Pyramid - observatory, tomb, and temple is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Ha...

Excerpt from A New Star Atlas for the Library, the School and the ObservatoryThe constellation boundaries are somewhat darker than I would have had them if I had not had to con sider the requirements of beginners. It seems to me very necessary that the extent of each constellation should be recognisable at a glance (at least by most of those who will use these maps). Indeed, if no other means would suffice for this, the Spaces should be colour...

Excerpt from Half-Hour Recreations Popular Science: First SeriesDeductions (rom nebular orig'n. 261. Delicacy of spectrum analysis, 57.Deposits of dissolved metals, 386, 387. Description of telespectroscope, 118, 119. Description of topmost cervical vertebra, 29. Diagram: the will, 214.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of ...

Excerpt from Knowledge, Vol. 21: An Illustrated Magazine of Science, Literature and Art, January to December, 1898Bacteria - The Story of Germ Life. By H. W'. Conn Barometrical Determination of Heights. By F. J. B.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techn...

Excerpt from Light Science for Leisure Hours: A Series of Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects, Natural Phenomena, EtcThis and the other Essays from the Daily News are selected from a large number of articles which I wrote in the years 1868 It was by my kind friend Mr. Walker, formerly editor of the Daily News, that I was first urged to collect my Essays into a volume. I have to thank the proprietors and the present editor of the Pauly News,...

Excerpt from Other Worlds Than OursIt will be seen that, on many of the subjects dealt with in this work, I have propounded views which differ from those usually accepted. I have not done this from any love of novelty, nor from any desire to attract attention by bizarre or fanciful the cries. Each of the new views here presented has been the result of a careful study of the subject dealt with, and I have searched as anxiously for considera tio...

Excerpt from Other Worlds Than Ours: The Plurality of Worlds Studied Under the Light of Recent Scientific ResearchesThis edition has been carefully revised and in many important respects modified.Several passages relating to questions which were under controversy when the earlier editions appeared have been removed - those questions having been decid ed by new evidence, in the sense advocated in the orig inal text.I have also omitted several p...

Excerpt from Other Worlds Than Ours: The Plurality of Worlds, Studied Under the Light of Recent Scientific ResearchesOne is thus invited to discuss anew a subject which but a few years since seemed thoroughly sifted by the inquiries of the two eminent philosophers I have named. We stand in a position much more favorable for the formation of just views than that from which Whewell and Brewster surveyed the plane tary and stellar systems. Never,...

Excerpt from Easy Star LessonsThe maps are arranged in sets of four, shewing what stars can be seen towards the north, towards the south, towards the east, and towards the west, at a certain convenient hour during every night in the year. This hour varies, night by night. On January Ist, the hour at which the stars shown in the first four maps can be seen in the position shown, will be a quarter past nine in the evening, on January 2, about el...

Excerpt from Knowledge, Vol. 3: An Illustrated Magazine of Science, Plainly Worded-Exactly Described, January to June, 1883Cookery, the chemistry of, 33, the boiling of waste 65, cooking under water, 97, 124, 153, 191, 218, 246, 274, 308, (illustrated) 311, 371)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical w...

Excerpt from Nouvel Atlas Céleste: Comprenant Quatorze Cartes, Précédé d'une Introduction sur l'Étude des Constellations, Augmenté de Quelques Études d'Astronomie StellaireTout en conservant la disposition des cartes de Procter, nous avons cru devoir leur apporter quelques modifications qui les complètent sans les rendre, pour cela, d'une lecture moins facile. En ce qui concerne les étoiles doubles, nous avons comparé toutes celles qui étaient...

Excerpt from Nouvel Atlas Céleste: Comprenant Quatorze Cartes, Précédé d'une Introduction sur l'Étude des Constellations, Augmenté de Quelques Études d'Astronomie StellaireTout en conservant la disposition des cartes de Procter, nous avons cru devoir leur apporter quelques modifications qui les complètent sans les rendre, pour cela, d'une lecture moins facile. En ce qui concerne les étoiles doubles, nous avons comparé toutes celles qui étaient...

Excerpt from First Step in Geometry: A Series of Hints for the Solution of Geometrical Problems With Notes on Euclid, Useful Working Propositions and Many ExamplesGeometrical deductions are problems which are intended to be solved by the application of recognised geometrical methods and propositions. They are divided into several classes.A geometrical deduction is termed a rider when it is given as an exercise on a particular proposition. It g...

Excerpt from The Spectroscope: And Its WorkSpectroscopic Analysis clear and simple for beginners, but at the same time accurate, and as complete as pos sible within so limited a space - following, in this respect, the plan already adopted in my elementary treatises on Astronomy and Physical Geography. In order to make room for subjects properly belonging to Spectroscopy, several subjects which are very fully treated of in large works on the Sp...

Excerpt from The Great Pyramid Observatory, Tomb, and TempleLess as such after his death (3) why it was worth his while to build it, (4) why separate structures were required for his brother, son, grandson, and other members of his family, (5) why it would naturally be used for his tomb, and (6) why it would be the scene of religious Observances. All that is necessary by way of postulate, is that he and his dynasty believed fully in astronomy ...

Excerpt from Saturn and Its SystemThus the variations 111 the Saturnian seasons more directly illustrate the corresponding variations in those of the earth than might, at first sight, be supposed. It will be seen from the note on page 117 that even the examination of the appearance Of the rings to the Saturnians is not without its bearing on terrestrial phenomena.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cl...

Excerpt from How to Play Whist: With the Laws and Etiquette of Whist, Whist-Whittlings, and Forty Fully-Annotated GamesThe finest of all sedentary games. But Whist, as it is often played, without any knowledge or appreciation of the real nature of the game, seems to have nothing making it better worth playing than Pope Joan or Beggar my Neighbour, and, to be decidedly inferior to Euchre. There is an intermediate kind of Whist, the game played ...