Furnished with more than a hundred figures, maps and tables, this
book was first published in 1878 by Simon Newcomb (1835 1909), a
noted mathematician and professor at the United States Naval
Observatory. A meticulous work, originally intended to be of use to
the general reader as well as the student, it provides a view of
astronomy as it stood on the eve of General Relativity, and
inevitably includes some theories which have since been disproved.
Newcomb outlines a brief history of astronomy, from ancient Greece
(when the planets were thought to be fixed in crystal spheres), to
the application of the new laws of thermodynamics and the latest
observations of the solar system. Included are a rejection of the
then prevalent theory that the sun has a cool interior and its own
inhabitants, details of the anomaly of Mercury's orbit according to
Newtonian theory, and thorough observational guides.
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